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 ...

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 ...

The Irish author Colm Tóibín will come to North Carolina for the very first time this month on a tour for his latest novel, Long Island, a sequel to 2009’s beloved blockbuster Brooklyn. The first of ...

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 ...

Oprah has announced her latest book club pick. Oprah selected a novel named “Long Island” by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín, which centers around an Irish immigrant living in New York’s Long Island. "It's ...

In his 2007 collection, “Mothers and Sons,” Irish writer Colm Tóibín (“The Master,” “The Blackwater Lightship”) showed himself to be an emerging master of the short-story form. In his new gathering of ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky In the past seven years, celebrated Irish writer Colm Tóibín has published two novels ...

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 ...

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 ...