What he doesn’t do in ‘my haphazard book of musings’ is relax his control. He can be precise, exact and restrained – like a chess player or a mathematician. But the thinking in The Book of Disquiet is ...
What Broderick is attempting is a French novel set in an Irish town; he wishes to put dangerous liaisons into the Irish midlands, to allow his Irish characters the freedom to pray to God for their ...
Sally Rooney's "Intermezzo" and Colm Tóibín's "Long Island" have been included among TIME magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2024. Sally Rooney's much anticipated fourth novel and Colm Tóibín ...
Colm Toibin talks to John Wilson in June 2013 about ... In an archive film from the Book Show in December 2004, Toibin talks to Martha Kearney about growing up in Ireland and different styles ...
The award-winning writer Colm Tóibín reads from his new book about the fathers of three of Ireland's leading writers: Oscar Wilde, WB Yeats and James Joyce.
Irish writer Colm Tóibín, who is currently living in Los Angeles, has said he thought the wildfires currently devastating the city were like "the end of the world".
The Art of Reading is a monthly book club hosted by Colm Tóibín, the Laureate for Irish Fiction. Each month, the Laureate meets a different library book club to discuss a book by an Irish writer, ...