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Twenty years on from ‘Brooklyn’ and we find Eilis Lacey in Long Island, settled in her life. But a knock on the door changes everything, in the long awaited follow up to ‘Brooklyn’. Is the past a foreign country, and what of Jim and Eilis?

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

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'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

It is difficult to dispute the place of James Joyce among the Pantheon of all literary greats, but Ireland has much more to offer than his modernist virtuosity. As a country that has suffered throu…

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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

Nora Webster

Colm Tóibín is named new Irish fiction laureate in ‘exciting time to be a reader in Ireland’ | Books | The Guardian

The Master

Mister Ray by Adam Perry (children's action/adventure).

Now a suburban married mother, Eilis Lacey finds herself in a quandary in “Long Island,” Colm Tóibín’s sequel to his much admired novel.

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

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.”

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Where Brooklyn was a book of suspended decisions and relentlessly increasing pressure, Long Island lets off its explosive at the very beginning.