Book review: Collection provides new insight into mind of acclaimed writer

One of the collection’s great joys is reading the author’s accounts of how other writers have shaped her as an artist and a person
Book review: Collection provides new insight into mind of acclaimed writer

Anne Enright is by turns caustic, passionate, irreverent, and self-deprecating in this collection. Photo: Moya Nolan

Sat, 06 Dec, 2025 - 01:07
Seán Kelly

  • Attention: Writing on Life, Art and the World
  • Anne Enright
  • Jonathan Cape

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