Colm Tóibín is the author of six novels, including The Master (a novel based on the life of Henry James) and Brooklyn, and two collections of stories, Mothers and Sons and The Empty Family. He has been a visiting writer at Stanford, the University of Texas at Austin, and Princeton, and is now the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia.
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Going Beyond the Limits
May 10, 2012
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes
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Gay Night and Day
February 23, 2012
Jack Holmes and His Friend
by Edmund White
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The Mysterious Powers of the Word
September 29, 2011
Life Times: Stories, 1952–2007
by Nadine Gordimer
Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954–2008
by Nadine Gordimer
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In the Fires of Catalonia
May 13, 2010
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The Anger of Exile
March 25, 2010
The Hakawati
by Rabih Alameddine
Cockroach
by Rawi Hage
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The Genius of Thom Gunn
January 14, 2010
Selected Poems
by Thom Gunn, edited by August Kleinzahler
Selected Poems of Fulke Greville
edited and with an introduction by Thom Gunn, and an afterword by Bradin Cormack
At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn
edited by Joshua Weiner
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The Admirable Mrs. James
June 11, 2009
Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James
by Susan E. Gunter
House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family
by Paul Fisher
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James Baldwin & Barack Obama
October 23, 2008
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A Great American Visionary
April 17, 2008
Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters
by Hart Crane
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The Shadow of Rose
December 20, 2007
Notebooks
by Tennessee Williams, edited by Margaret Bradham Thornton
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Creating ‘The Portrait of a Lady’
July 19, 2007
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Learning to Love
April 12, 2007
Call Me by Your Name
by André Aciman
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A Thousand Prayers
November 30, 2006
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
by Yiyun Li
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Happy Birthday, Sam!
April 27, 2006
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Henry James’s New York
February 9, 2006
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The Comedy of Being English
January 13, 2005
The Line of Beauty
by Alan Hollinghurst
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Return to Catalonia
October 7, 2004
Soldiers of Salamis
by Javier Cercas, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
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The Black Diaries
September 23, 2004
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The Tragedy of Roger Casement
May 27, 2004
Roger Casement: The Black Diaries
by Jeffrey Dudgeon
Sir Roger Casement’s Heart of Darkness: The 1911 Documents by Angus Mitchell
The Eyes of Another Race: Roger Casement’s Congo Report and 1903 Diary
edited by Séamus Ó Síocháin and Michael O'Sullivan
Roger Casement in Death, or Haunting the Free State
by W.J. McCormack
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New Ways to Kill Your Father
June 12, 2003
Rory & Ita
by Roddy Doyle
The Speckled People
by Hugo Hamilton
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The Cause that Called You
December 19, 2002
Ireland’s Holy Wars: The Struggle for a Nation’s Soul, 1500–2000
by Marcus Tanner
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Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush
August 9, 2001
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Still Drama: Marina at MoMA
April 21, 2010
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Glorious Ghosts
November 19, 2009
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Hopkins: The Odd Man Out
October 26, 2009
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Why Ireland Said Yes
October 16, 2009