Anne Enright

Jan 8, 2025 | indianapolismonthly.com | Christina Vercelletto |Anne Enright |Leo Tolstoy

Pick by Maurice Broaddus, author of The Usual SuspectsOut There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele“This anthology of new stories by Black horror writers runs the gamut, drawing on history, the supernatural, current events, and personal traumas to provide stories that balance being unsettling with being thoroughly entertaining.”Picks by Tess Gunty, author of The Rabbit HutchThe Gathering by Anne Enright“The splendor of the language is utterly hypnotizing.

Nov 14, 2024 | almendron.com | Anne Enright |Astra Taylor |Coco Fusco |Michael Greenberg

Astra TaylorOn election night, before Harris’s loss set in, some exit polls showed that “democracy” was a top concern for voters. Many liberals took the result as an auspicious sign. But what is democracy? That was the title of a documentary I made during the 2016 presidential campaign. As I conducted dozens of interviews across the United States over many months, I learned that there was hardly a consensus over the word’s meaning.

Nov 14, 2024 | nybooks.com | Anne Enright

In July, two months after Alice Munro died, her daughter Andrea Skinner revealed not only that she had been sexually abused by her stepfather for several years starting when she was nine but that when confronted with this truth sixteen years later her mother “chose to stay with, and protect [her] abuser,” Gerald Fremlin.

Nov 13, 2024 | nybooks.com | Anne Enright |Thomas Powers |Verlyn Klinkenborg |Coco Fusco

Astra Taylor • Michael Greenberg • Coco Fusco • Verlyn Klinkenborg • Thomas Powers • Anne Enright* On election night, before Harris’s loss set in, some exit polls showed that “democracy” was a top concern for voters. Many liberals took the result as an auspicious sign. But what is democracy? That was the title of a documentary I made during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Oct 17, 2024 | nybooks.com | Anne Enright

Last year, when I was at home in Ireland and my son was studying in the United States, I found myself sending him a picture from Twitter followed by a warning: “There is a sniper on your university roof, please stay in your room.” I had been keeping a maternal eye on the Gaza protest on campus, bribing him to stay away from it with daily donations to Doctors Without Borders.