LESSONS, by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape, $37)
Towards the end of Ian McEwan’s disquieting new novel, his hapless older hero, Roland Baines, is embarking on a “lockdown project” in which he’s annotating several thousand photos spread across the floor of his London sitting room.
It is early 2020 and Roland, a widower in poor physical shape, is in the midst of the UK’s first Covid lockdown. The photos, old-fashioned prints, span the years up to 2004, when digital technology took over. Roland’s progress
