Literary fiction is the only way we have, really, of seeing somebody thinking something and saying something else, and the ...

Whether you were a fan of the movie Brooklyn or couldn’t put down The Master, Colm Tóibín is undeniably one of Ireland’s greatest living authors. That means—short of getting sloshed later in the ...

Up against John Banville and Colum McCann in an unending round-robin (The Favored Irish Writer Cup), Colm Toibin is an international literary figure. We know the deal with the international literary ...

Voices, cadence, pacing: These 8 sublime audiobooks do everything right. By Lauren Christensen Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Now a suburban married mother, Eilis ...

Colm Tóibín loves nothing more than a good personal crisis. The nine stories that make up his third story collection, The ...

Colm Toibin considers the life and achievement of German novelist Thomas Mann in his latest book "The Magician". Nobel Prize winner and author of several of the most celebrated novels of the 20th ...

Colm Tóibín, author of “Brooklyn” and “The Empty Family” first encountered “The Children’s Grandmother,” by Sylvia Townsend Warner, in an old collection of New Yorker short stories that he bought at a ...