Attention

Writing on Life, Art and the World

De: Anne Enright

Narrado por: Anne Enright

One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2026

From one of our most distinguished literary voices, a defining essay collection blending personal reflection with urgent political writing and wide–ranging cultural criticism.

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 drawing us into her precise insights. These essays, collated from throughout Enright’s career, take us from Galway to Honduras, from keen–eyed memoir to urgent political writing. Enright writes about the free voices and controlled bodies of women in society: she interprets Sophocles’s Antigone through the lens of the Mother and Baby Homes in Galway; writes on Ireland’s successful 2018 referendum on abortion rights; and offers new perspectives on writers such as Alice Munro, Toni Morrison, James Joyce, Helen Garner, and Angela Carter.
True to the themes that saturate her award–winning fiction, Attention explores the intersection between the personal and political, complex family dynamics, and the body in crystalline, urgent prose. This stunning collection unites Enright’s cultural criticism, literary, and autobiographical writing for the first time.

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One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2026

“Anne Enright’s essays are a joy to read: incisive, wise, often humorous, they are explorations of the way we live in the world today. I turned down so many page-corners as I read that I now cannot shut my copy of the book.”
—Maggie O’Farrell, author of Hamnet

"With all its incisiveness, wit, and brilliant sanity, Anne Enright's Attention provides a glorious antidote to the mad, sad world."
—Eimear McBride, author of The City Changes Its Face and The Lesser Bohemians

"The provocative, wise, compassionate turns her writing takes, So alert, so attuned, so alive."
—Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days

"One of the most gifted writers working in English today."
—Jennifer Egan, author of The Candy House

"Anne Enright might just be Ireland's greatest living writer."
—The Times

"What a pleasure this book is. . . . I have admired Enright's writing for a long time, but it struck me that she is one of the best essayists alive, as well as one of the best novelists, and ought to get more recognition for the former."
—Observer

"In Attention you can experience the energy of her essayistic mind, whirring with ideas of justice, truth, and imagination. It's a remarkable place to be."
—Sunday Times

"Sparkling. . . . Unabashed and morally generous. . . . My feeling reading this collection is that each precious line needs going over twice. First for the sound and shape of the words, the second for their meaning. . . . These, then, are the terms of engagement: she will write like a sharp, funny fallen angel and we will pay attention."
—The Guardian

"Anne Enright is a dazzling novelist . . . and an insightful essay writer. . . . Attention confirms the intelligence, compassion, and humour of the mind behind the novels."
—Independent

"The critical alertness of Enright's mind is on compelling display. . . . In this important and substantive volume . . . Enright has put her writer's gifts at the service of a genuine, sustained "ecstasy of attention."
—Irish Times

"Enright's exhilarating mixture of analysis and autobiography compels continuous assent."
—Times Literary Supplement