Montauk, on Long Island, where Colm Toibin's new novel is set - Tetra How does a writer revive their best-loved characters? How do they pay service to a story for which hundreds of thousands of ...

A good historical novel has the power to transport us back to a different time and make it seem as real and immediate as our present moment. When it’s done well, a period piece shouldn’t feel like a ...

One of the lingering mysteries about the German writer Thomas Mann is how there could have been any lingering mystery about his repressed –make that sublimated– sexual desire for beautiful young men.

Colm Tóibín doesn't approve of sequels. So fans of his novel "Brooklyn" will be happy that after nearly 15 years he has "overcome these misgivings" to write the follow-up, "Long Island", said Lisa ...

Colm Tóibín, a novelist known for his patient portrayals of quiet lives, begins his new novel with a bombshell. On the first page of Long Island, Eilis Fiorello, née Lacey, finds out that her husband ...

Setting the plot equivalent of a timed bomb at a story’s opening is an audacious tactic, instantly framing and compressing what follows. Readers lean in. How will these individuals behave or misbehave ...

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 ...

Enniscorthy native and international best-selling author Colm Tóibín received one of the highest university awards this week. On Wednesday, June 25, Tóibín was awarded the honorary degree of Doctors ...