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Colm Tóibín is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia. His latest book, A Guest at the Feast: Essays, will be published in January. (December 2022)
The Secrets of Others
In Parallel Mothers, Pedro Almodóvar goes beyond his familiar themes of sex and motherhood and into new territory: the legacy of the Spanish Civil War.
Parallel Mothers
a film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar
March 10, 2022 issue
Picasso’s Obsessions
The last volume of John Richardson’s biography documents the rivalry between Dora Maar and Marie-Thérèse Walter for the painter’s attention and his intense engagement with depicting them.
A Life of Picasso: The Minotaur Years, 1933–1943
by John Richardson, with the collaboration of Ross Finocchio and Delphine Huisinga
February 10, 2022 issue
‘We Must Be Light!’
What emerges most strongly from James Merrill’s collected letters is their lightness of touch, lightness of spirit, and the quality of affection on display.
A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill
edited by Langdon Hammer and Stephen Yenser
June 10, 2021 issue
Shadow Selves
‘The Man in the Red Coat’ by Julian Barnes
The Man in the Red Coat
by Julian Barnes
August 20, 2020 issue
Nasty, Brutish, and Long
The Catholic School
by Edoardo Albinati, translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar
June 11, 2020 issue
Tintoretto’s Wildness
‘Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice’ at the National Gallery of Art, through July 7, 2019
Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice
an exhibition at the Fondazione Musei Civici, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, September 7, 2018–January 6, 2019; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., March 10–July 7, 2019
May 9, 2019 issue
The Aristocracy’s Swann Song
Proust’s Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris
by Caroline Weber
October 11, 2018 issue
Desolation Row
Lorca was interested in simple freedoms in a period in Spain when nothing was simple
Poet in Spain
by Federico García Lorca, translated from the Spanish by Sarah Arvio
April 5, 2018 issue
The Heart of Conrad
Joseph Conrad’s heroes were often alone, and close to hostility and danger.
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
by Maya Jasanoff
February 22, 2018 issue
The Class Renegade
Édouard Louis’s ‘The End of Eddy’
The End of Eddy
by Édouard Louis, translated from the French by Michael Lucey
July 13, 2017 issue
The Talented, Trapped Spenders
A House in St John’s Wood: In Search of My Parents
by Matthew Spender
Worlds Apart: A Memoir
by David Plante
April 7, 2016 issue
She Played Hard with Happiness
‘The Complete Stories’ by Clarice Lispector
The Complete Stories
by Clarice Lispector, translated from the Portuguese by Katrina Dodson, edited and with an introduction by Benjamin Moser
December 17, 2015 issue
The Hard-Won Truth of the North
German Autumn
by Stig Dagerman, translated from the Swedish by Robin Fulton Macpherson, with a foreword by Mark Kurlansky
Island of the Doomed
by Stig Dagerman, translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson, with a foreword by J.M.G. Le Clézio
A Burnt Child
by Stig Dagerman, translated from the Swedish by Benjamin Mier-Cruz, with an introduction by Per Olov Enquist
Sleet: Selected Stories
by Stig Dagerman, translated from the Swedish by Steven Hartman, with a preface by Alice McDermott
July 9, 2015 issue
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