Anne Enright

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‘It is nice to be adored, until it isn’t’: Anne Enright on the problem with unrequited love
Young, smart and beautiful, Hilda Moriarty became the muse behind Kavanagh’s famous poem On Raglan Road – and the object of his unwanted affection. Anne Enright explores the poet’s obsessions in an age of unrequited love

Anne Enright

02, Sep, 2023 @10:00 AM

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Cheri by Jo Ann Beard review – an author too good to miss
The US essayist is a rare talent. In this slim volume she imagines a woman’s dying days with shocking clarity

Anne Enright

09, Aug, 2023 @6:30 AM

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Summer books: Zadie Smith, Ian Rankin, Richard Osman and others pick their favourites
Leading authors recommend the best recent books, from a forbidden love affair at the Western Front to a murder mystery set in Egypt

David Nicholls; Zadie Smith; Pankaj Mishra; Olivia Laing; Colm Tóibín; Ian Rankin; Ali Smith; Mohsin Hamid; Margo Jefferson; Anne Enright; Jonathan Coe; Katherine Rundell; Curtis Sittenfeld; Richard Osman; Maggie O’Farrell; Sara Collins; Mick Herron; Shehan Karunatilaka

24, Jun, 2023 @8:00 AM

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Liberation Day by George Saunders review – a hell of a ride
The characters in these absurdly funny stories are trapped by hyper-capitalism and their own foolishness, as Saunders investigates the prisons we make for ourselves

Anne Enright

20, Oct, 2022 @10:00 AM

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Hilary Mantel remembered: ‘She was the queen of literature’
The beloved writer of the Wolf Hall trilogy and Beyond Black has died. Here, leading contemporaries pay tribute

Margaret Atwood, Anne Enright, Kamila Shamsie, Maggie O’Farrell, Ian McEwan, Sarah Waters and Sarah Perry

23, Sep, 2022 @2:27 PM

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Summer books: Bernardine Evaristo, Hilary Mantel, David Nicholls and more pick their favourites
Authors recommend their favourite recent reads, from addictive novels and fascinating cultural history to a game-changing graphic memoir

Bernardine Evaristo, Hilary Mantel, David Nicholls, Anne Enright, Sara Collins, Ali Smith, Jonathan Franzen, Pankaj Mishra, Colm Tóibín, Sarah Waters, Olivia Laing, Ian Rankin, Robert Macfarlane, Katherine Rundell, Mohammed Hanif, Polly Samson and Fatima Bhutto

25, Jun, 2022 @11:00 AM

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Homesickness by Colin Barrett review – superb stories of changing Ireland
One of the leading proponents of the short story explores how to be a man in a country on the turn

Anne Enright

10, Mar, 2022 @7:30 AM

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Pure Colour by Sheila Heti review – love, philosophy and foliage
This mystical, wildly original study of grief and love considers God, art and what it’s like to be a leaf

Anne Enright

16, Feb, 2022 @9:00 AM

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‘A world inside one head’ – Anne Enright on James Joyce’s Ulysses at 100
My mother considered it a dirty text, but this profoundly democratic book has liberated female Irish authors

Anne Enright

29, Jan, 2022 @11:00 AM

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Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney review – the problem of success
How do you follow two brilliantly acclaimed novels? Rooney examines meaning, art, friendship and the price of fame through the story of two couples

Anne Enright

02, Sep, 2021 @8:12 AM

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Anne Enright on The Green Road: ‘I set out to write another King Lear’
The author on writing her novel a cottage in County Clare, and letting her scattered characters take on lives of their own

Anne Enright

26, Jun, 2021 @11:00 AM

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On my radar: Anne Enright’s cultural highlights
The Booker prize-winning author on Mare of Easttown, her favourite lockdown park and the fearsome power of folk music

Anne Enright

19, Jun, 2021 @2:00 PM

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