Consider what has just happened to the celebrated British novelist Ian McEwan. Last week, during a speech at the Royal Institution in London, McEwan took a genteel swipe at the politics of identity.

https://doi.org/10.5325/style.55.1.0100 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/style.55.1.0100 JAKOB LOTHE is professor of English literature at the University of ...

This photo provided by Knopf shows the book cover of "What We Can Know," by author, Ian McEwan. (Knopf via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — The next novel by Ian McEwan will be a post-apocalyptic story ...