In 2119, McEwan imagines a world shaped by climate disaster, war and lost knowledge, where the search for a poem becomes an urgent philosophical quest

It is a subject that has engaged some of the biggest names in international letters: Don DeLillo in Falling Man, Ian McEwan in Saturday and Jonathan Safran Foer in Extremely Loud…

Two very different movies about the Iraq war are among the favourites for awards at this year’s Venice film festival as it passes the halfway stage, and an unusually high number…