In a Q interview, the award-winning Irish writer tells Tom Power about his new short story collection, The News from Dublin.

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 ...

Through a series of accessible essays, lectures, and reviews that rove from Jane Austen to Brian Moore—many of which appeared in either the London or New York Review of Books— Tóibín explores the ...

Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, three short story collections and several works of nonfiction. He has written countless articles, plays, an opera libretto and a collection of poetry, and ...

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 ...