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D. T. Max writes that the Irish author, in writing his new novel, spent years tracing the secret yearnings of Mann—who, he says, played a lifelong “game between what was revealed and what was concealed.”

In our March 10, 2022 issue, Colm Tóibín reviewed Parallel Mothers, Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film in which his characters confront the dark forces of

The award-winning writer takes over the role intended to encourage engagement with high quality fiction

After Henry James’s death 100 years ago, his relatives were at pains to remove any hints of his sexuality from his letters and biography

It is fifteen years after the Second World War, and Isabel has built herself a solitary life of discipline and strict routine in her late mother's country home, with not a fork or a word out of place. But all is upended when her brother Louis delivers his graceless new girlfriend, Eva, at Isabel's doorstep - as a guest, there to stay for the season… In the sweltering heat of summer, Isabel's desperate need for control reaches boiling point. What happens between the two women leads to a…

"A really good idea might come to you at night and seem really wrong in the morning. So you're always testing things."

'You just have to go wherever things take you. I'm not sure you can take everyone with you, but you should be prepared to try'Colm Tóibín talks to Susanna Rustin

Colm Tóibín explains how his new novel, Nora Webster, draws on his memories of his father's death, joining a rich tradition of writing about loss, from Sophocles to Joan Didion