Colm Toibin

1 month ago | countryandtownhouse.com | Olivia Emily |Colm Toibin

(© Tony Blake) (© Tony Blake) If there’s one tall, dark-haired Irishman cropping up everywhere at the moment, it’s Emmett J Scanlan – and oh is he everyone. Hailing from Dublin and tallying 20 years in the industry, the star has been moving from strength to strength in recent years, from playing bookie Billy Grade in Peaky Blinders to a conflicted copper in The Tower, a gangster in explosive Irish drama Kin to a scene-stealing ex-soldier in Netflix’s Fool Me Once. What’s next? Well, a whole...

1 month ago | fivebooks.com | Colm Toibin |Madeline Miller |John Gardner |T White

What is the appeal of mythological retellings, as a reader and as a writer? For both a reader and a writer, the plot is not the point. We know that Iphigenia is going to be sacrificed; we know that the Greeks are going to win the war in Troy; we know that Clytemnestra is going to kill Agamemnon. So the point, and the reason these stories have survived, is that these are modern retellings. These are modern interpretations. Obviously, our age has different interests than previous ages.

2 months ago | barnesandnoble.com | Colm Toibin |Isabelle McConville

Small Moments: A Guest Post by Colm Tóibín We were so, so pleased when we heard that Colm Tóibín was writing a sequel to his beloved novel, Brooklyn. Family secrets and complicated choices drive this exhilarating story that we won’t forget. Read on for an exclusive essay from Colm on writing Our Monthly Pick, Long Island.

2 months ago | barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Sarah Crouch |Molly O'Neill |Colm Toibin

This seamless slam-dunk of epic history-telling from the author of the bestselling Killers of the Flower Moon is an eighteenth-century puzzle of high seas intrigue, a fateful shipwreck, mutiny, and a real-life “Lord of the Flies” descent into mayhem, culminating in a gripping courtroom battle where opposing truths hang in the balance. Rousing, engrossing, and such a ride!

2 months ago | barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |David Grann |Colm Toibin |Hanif Abdurraqib

This seamless slam-dunk of epic history-telling from the author of the bestselling Killers of the Flower Moon is an eighteenth-century puzzle of high seas intrigue, a fateful shipwreck, mutiny, and a real-life “Lord of the Flies” descent into mayhem, culminating in a gripping courtroom battle where opposing truths hang in the balance. Rousing, engrossing, and such a ride!