Once upon a time, Lord Lundy was sent out to govern New South Wales. Now, says the great FM, he would be welcomed in our midst. A shrewd, anecdotal survey of emotion in history.
From the 1780s to (almost) the present; with particular reference to the roles of the Amendment and the Supreme Court. Lepore is a professor at Harvard.
Set in 2119 after the UK is mostly submerged by rising seas, McEwan's latest combines a Ballardian dystopia with a deft mystery - a case of a disappearing poem rather than a body in the libr... read more