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Louise Glück: a poet who never shied away from silence, pain or fear

Her work included long periods in which she wrote nothing – and when she did write, she had little sense that it was hers

Colm Tóibín

17, Oct, 2023 @10:28 AM

Summer books: Zadie Smith, Ian Rankin, Richard Osman and others pick their favourites

Leading authors recommend the best recent books, from a forbidden love affair at the Western Front to a murder mystery set in Egypt

David Nicholls; Zadie Smith; Pankaj Mishra; Olivia Laing; Colm Tóibín; Ian Rankin; Ali Smith; Mohsin Hamid; Margo Jefferson; Anne Enright; Jonathan Coe; Katherine Rundell; Curtis Sittenfeld; Richard Osman; Maggie O’Farrell; Sara Collins; Mick Herron; Shehan Karunatilaka

24, Jun, 2023 @8:00 AM

I’m not stoned, I’m just writing an opera! Colm Tóibín on how he got diva fever

From schoolboy trips to booze-ups with New York garbage men, the novelist recalls how he fell for the fabulous world of opera – and managed to break in, with a staging of his book about Henry James

Colm Tóibín

19, Oct, 2022 @3:00 PM

Summer books: Bernardine Evaristo, Hilary Mantel, David Nicholls and more pick their favourites

Authors recommend their favourite recent reads, from addictive novels and fascinating cultural history to a game-changing graphic memoir

Bernardine Evaristo, Hilary Mantel, David Nicholls, Anne Enright, Sara Collins, Ali Smith, Jonathan Franzen, Pankaj Mishra, Colm Tóibín, Sarah Waters, Olivia Laing, Ian Rankin, Robert Macfarlane, Katherine Rundell, Mohammed Hanif, Polly Samson and Fatima Bhutto

25, Jun, 2022 @11:00 AM

Colm Tóibín: will the Brexit fallout lead to a ‘united Ireland’?

With negotiations souring an already uneasy relationship to England, the Irish novelist surveys the mood of his nation, and considers the prospect of unification

Colm Tóibín

02, Oct, 2021 @8:00 AM

We Don’t Know Ourselves by Fintan O’Toole review – sweeping account of Ireland’s evolutions

The veteran journalist and author delves behind the myths of change and boom to give a rich, nuanced picture of Irish life as he and others lived it

Colm Tóibín

20, Sep, 2021 @6:00 AM

The Pages by Hugo Hamilton review – a book with a story to tell

A novel smuggled out of Nazi Germany narrates this ingenious work which warns of the danger in ignoring lessons of history

Colm Tóibín

01, Aug, 2021 @8:30 AM

Gay Bar by Jeremy Atherton Lin – a going out memoir

An incisive history of London, LA and San Francisco recalls the sights, sounds and distinctive smells of gay life from the 1990s to today

Colm Tóibín

18, Feb, 2021 @7:30 AM

Louise Glück: Colm Tóibín on a brave and truthful Nobel winner

Her brilliantly controlled poems offer a picture of the world as a struggle between ordeal and wonder

Colm Tóibín

09, Oct, 2020 @5:00 AM

The Pink Line by Mark Gevisser review – the world's queer frontiers

An engrossing study, full of stories, of the extent to which the world has changed in its attitudes to LGBT people

Colm Tóibín

20, Jun, 2020 @6:30 AM

Outrages by Naomi Wolf review – sex and censorship

Repressive laws overshadowing the bedroom and the bookshop ... a study of gay Victorians and ‘obscenity’

Colm Tóibín

15, May, 2019 @6:30 AM

Colm Tóibín: ‘I couldn’t read until I was nine – my first book was an Agatha Christie’

The author on the books that make him laugh, the gay novel that changed his life, and why he wishes he were TS Eliot

Colm Tóibín

25, May, 2018 @9:00 AM

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