The title of Colm Tóibín’s new story collection seems to promise, at first glance, a return to familiar territory: a tour, perhaps, of old stomping grounds; a reconnection with earlier work. But... Read more »
I often write the first paragraph of a story in a notebook, add to it every so often or leave it there to see if something might emerge from it. In 2008,... Read more »
That Christmas – it was almost 20 years ago – I came back from America with news. My friend Daniel Medin had recommended two books to me, both by the Hungarian novelist... Read more »
This dispatch from what we might call the extended Colm Tóibín universe is set near the same time and in the same place as his earlier novel Brooklyn (one character appears in... Read more »
Anne Enright. Photograph: Patrick Bolger/The Observer Anne Enright: âShe was all in, every timeâ OâBrien blew open the possibilities for Irish fiction, not because of the taboos she broke but because she... Read more »