LRB ON SOLAR

The London Review of Books weighs in with its appraisal of Ian McEwan's new novel Solar.

The elements of farce in Solar have the unintended side-effect of pointing up how farcical many of the events in McEwan's previous, more serious novels are: the lengths the children go to in The Cement Garden to try to conceal their mother's corpse, inexpertly disposed of in the cellar; the drunk ex-husband in The Innocent falling asleep in his ex-wife's wardrobe while waiting for her to come home with...