Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín is the author of five novels, including The Story of the Night, The Blackwater Lightship, and The Heather Blazing. The Master, a novel based on the life of Henry James, was published in 2004 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Among his nonfiction works are Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border, Homage to Barcelona, The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe, and, most recently, Love in a Dark Time. In 2004, his first play, Beauty in a Broken Place, was produced in Dublin. His most recent novel, The Master, which is based on the life of Henry James, won the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year Award in 2005 and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. He lives in Dublin.

From the Review

April 17, 2008: A Great American Visionary

Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters by Hart Crane

December 20, 2007: The Shadow of Rose

Notebooks by Tennessee Williams, edited by Margaret Bradham Thornton

July 19, 2007: Creating 'The Portrait of a Lady'

April 12, 2007: Learning to Love

Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman

November 30, 2006: A Thousand Prayers

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li

April 27, 2006: Happy Birthday, Sam!

February 9, 2006: Henry James's New York

January 13, 2005: The Comedy of Being English

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

October 7, 2004: Return to Catalonia

Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

September 23, 2004: The Black Diaries (letter)

May 27, 2004: The Tragedy of Roger Casement

Roger Casement: The Black Diaries by Jeffrey Dudgeon

Sir Roger Casement's Heart of Darkness: The 1911 Documents by Angus Mitchell

Roger Casement in Death, or Haunting the Free State by W.J. McCormack

The Eyes of Another Race: Roger Casement's Congo Report and 1903 Diary edited by Séamus Ó Síocháin and Michael O'Sullivan

June 12, 2003: New Ways to Kill Your Father

Rory & Ita by Roddy Doyle

The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton

December 19, 2002: The Cause that Called You

Ireland's Holy Wars: The Struggle for a Nation's Soul, 1500–2000 by Marcus Tanner

August 9, 2001: Lady Gregory's Toothbrush

From New York Review Books

The New York Stories of Henry James An original collection of all of James's New York Stories.

The Go-Between The Go-Between is a masterpiece—a richly layered, spellbinding story about past and present, naiveté and knowledge, and the mysteries of the human heart.