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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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
2026
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| 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.