Although ATONEMENT may look and sound like a love story, with its sweaty trysts in darkened libraries and the wistful look in the hero's eyes as he watches his beloved ride away on a bus, the romance ...

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The mechanics of repentance are more nuanced than might appear on the surface. How can it be carried out? Only by confessing and asking forgiveness? Or can an obvious shift in priorities or character ...

Atonement by Ian McEwan Doubleday, 351 pp., $26 IN 1971, at age twenty-two, Ian McEwan was Malcolm Bradbury’s first student in a new master’s degree program at the University of East Anglia in England ...

Ian McEwan’s 'Atonement' is both a love story and a confession, a novel that exposes how imagination can wound as deeply as truth. While Joe Wright’s film captures its beauty, it cannot mirror the ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Ian McEwan’s Atonement—a modern literary masterpiece—presents a story of ...

Re-reading Ian McEwan’s Atonement last weekend, my first thought was: I hope to God that Joe Wright — whose broadly grinning Pride & Prejudice made a mess of Jane Austen two years ago — doesn’t screw ...

Ian McEwan took on the disasters of a great lie and a world war in his novel "Atonement." Now a new movie takes on the much acclaimed novel. It stars Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. MORNING EDITION ...

TORONTO — One can't be sure of much in this world, but after early screenings of Atonement one thing was all but certain to more than one movie journalist: James McAvoy is going to be a major star.