{"id":175067,"date":"2025-09-28T09:45:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/175067\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T09:45:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:45:05","slug":"book-review-ian-mcewans-what-we-can-know-is-a-thoughtful-look-at-a-ruined-earth-from-a-slightly-goofy-prophet-toronto-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/175067\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: Ian McEwan&#039;s &#039;What We Can Know&#039; is a thoughtful look at a ruined Earth from a slightly goofy prophet &#8211; Toronto Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi-wFBVV95cUxPMjVtdUxaT1RfRFBXZDE4MXVhaVp4MUM1MF8tM3hFRWxOZkNCZW5lYW9tUnNheUFYQ0VJNExwVktZTy1hWGdfVVBrWHIxYWs3aFdqVXY1VjZMRFA5VUtWSXdLQ0swRS1IMG1jQmFzTE0wNTdkNDFtN0Y5bkpHdXRGN2J3N3FCeWREOHUtZGlaSFV0MzBKRmoyaXRsZ3Byd19CQTJMSlRSVWVDSU8tNGg1a3BVTVpfcWMybFc2ZmJqSU5SaUZuUlcwNHZ6cEhxLXFldG01dzFJRnB5andxZm42OTBBX3Z4Rk5kNnJteUtoRkVVczZRYjdxZE11VQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Book review: Ian McEwan&#8217;s &#8216;What We Can Know&#8217; is a thoughtful look at a ruined Earth from a slightly goofy prophet<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Toronto Star<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihwFBVV95cUxPNTBIRlZfTHZ6S0tHeWt2dkhTRE1oek5qd3E3YklOQ1BFUEdwaHpnSzNzQ0twM2cweWoyVkdaZVY2M2R3alp0Smc3UjBEOWFScWFPOEtCQndsakpOajN0N1JqLU1PVDhxWUlJZTVPdlJHM0RrWm93MlROSi1TNXVsVFd2SV9aQms?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ian McEwan\u2019s Latest Is the Best Novel He\u2019s Written in Ages<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The New York Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi1gFBVV95cUxQZ2tLQXdTd052V2NSZWxLbVM1UHlkQV9melVxZTRMdFNnTnlLc0M4NFo1ZlZSbkFkZUxlWUp5LXZ1b0FFTmJqUDNFTGtpTkJ5X3EteWtwdmhuV1hsdXFOb0Uxc3BmWG1fUmVxZTFETGRJM25sWkk0WVJiZENmcVV5eVhaY0xRSnBOSG1sck5rWmJOcTZsTHBZOWVETXRmakN0Z3h2WkN3VGFDcTJ4WjVzQVdzMWxSQ2FrQi16NDRaanl0a2FNeUVQUC1ZQmVhNzd1QXZ6TWFR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">British author Ian McEwan explores &#8216;science fiction without the science&#8217; in ambitious new novel<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Calgary Herald<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijgFBVV95cUxNWG44d3QtM05TTVRIU1ZMN1NQTzJIOGgwdlplYXBLTVZRUWJTUEY2VlhBYnJzWHF3MC1VdXNMMjBTUnh0UlM5b1pXQnRDS3VOYXZ4dFZTTl81NW1sNEFsa0hGVVg4ZW5yMlhJa3dfLWFJWnlxUFo1c2F3WXYwQTE1S0Q1TGowYzUwWGdVd3Jn?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ian McEwan Casts the Climate Crisis as a Story of Adultery<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The New Yorker<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiugFBVV95cUxOWThVSU1pS1Z3cWJ1N05aZXB1MnBFYllFaGFOQjFmOVV2ZEdOcmd3TDZuM082d0ZHUFo1XzBsSlI3cFBLbkY5N2lBMC1xR2pJTkw5MERvd1JxZHlhMkxybURMeWJ6Yl80cW9fVEk4S1hVTVlTU3otQ1VCRUZHVnN6MXpacURaT1NpckR3Y2swZ3pTTWQ0TENZdXo1VzVWRG1rUC1JZjN1c3NtdlNIMjhVSjA2WUNGbnZLZEE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Literary mystery meets dystopian future in Ian McEwan&#8217;s &#8216;What We Can Know&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Times Colonist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Book review: Ian McEwan&#8217;s &#8216;What We Can Know&#8217; is a thoughtful look at a ruined Earth from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":["post-175067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}