Attention : writing on life, art, and the world /

"For thirty years Anne Enright--one of our greatest living novelists (Times)--has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature, and her own life, and gifting us with her precise insights. These essays, collated from across Enright's career, tak...

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Main Author: Enright, Anne, 1962- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2026
Edition:First American edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Voices. The cat sat on the mat: from Call yourself George
  • I stab and stab: How to end a story: collected diaries by Helen Garner
  • Priests in the family
  • Ulysses: an introduction
  • Lessons from Angela Carter
  • Eyes that bite: The bluest eye by Toni Morrison
  • She never left: in memory of Edna O'Brien
  • The high Irish style: John McGahern's The pornographer
  • In search of the real Maeve Brennan
  • Alice Munro's retreat
  • Bodies. Antigone in Galway: The dishonoured dead of Tuam's mother and baby home
  • Time for change: Ireland's referendum on abortion reform
  • Difficulties with Volkswagen: labour in fiction
  • The monsters of #MeToo
  • Unruly bodies: women and their doctors
  • On consent
  • Time. Dublin made me
  • Oh, Canada
  • Beckett in a field
  • Addictions
  • Take this waltz: Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard, an afterword
  • Listen to Heloïse: children and religion
  • House clearance
  • The husband: a travel diary
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of first publications and permissions.