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Best historical fiction books of 2024, from Robert Harris to Colm Tóibín
2 months ago

Best historical fiction books of 2024, from Robert Harris to Colm Tóibín

The Independent  

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‘Long Island’: A story about emotive logic and all that it entails
4 months ago

‘Long Island’: A story about emotive logic and all that it entails

Live Mint  

Like a woodcut artist thinking in terms of negative light, or a jazz musician measuring silence not beats, the pleasures of a Colm Tóibín novel often lie in the unsaid. The protagonist of Brooklyn, 20-something Eilis Lacey, is in her 40s at the beginning of Long Island, married to Italian-American plumber Tony Fiorello and mother to Rosella and Larry. Eilis’ …

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The best new books released in May, as selected by avid readers and critics
7 months, 1 week ago

The best new books released in May, as selected by avid readers and critics

ABC  

Another month, another slew of incredible books that take us from Noongar country to Ireland and South Africa, from behind the bars of a detention centre to a suburban cul-de-sac. Our trusted gang of avid readers — The Book Show's Claire Nichols and Sarah L'Estrange, ABC Arts' Nicola Heath, and critics Declan Fry and Rosie Ofori Ward — have picked …

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Colm Toibin’s remarkable sequel to Brooklyn is a lesson on tortured regret in middle age
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Colm Toibin’s remarkable sequel to Brooklyn is a lesson on tortured regret in middle age

The Independent  

Colm Tóibín, a brilliant and congenial figure in the Irish literary landscape, is also a student, and teacher, of the classic English novel who’s become – shall we say – affectionately obsessed with its subtle inner workings and ageless storytelling imperatives. This is especially audacious for being conducted in a more or less continuous present in which Long Island’s “backstory” …

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Oprah Winfrey’s new book club pick is Colm Tóibín’s ‘Long Island,’ the sequel to ‘Brooklyn’
8 months ago

Oprah Winfrey’s new book club pick is Colm Tóibín’s ‘Long Island,’ the sequel to ‘Brooklyn’

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Colm Tóibín’s “Long Island,” the Irish novelist’s follow-up to the prize-winning immigrant tale “Brooklyn,” is Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick. “Long Island,” published Tuesday, continues the story of Eilis Lacey, who left Ireland for New York City in the 1950s and is now trapped in an unhappy marriage to Tony Fiorello, the Italian plumber she met …

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The best new books to read this May
8 months ago

The best new books to read this May

The Independent  

Tiffany Murray’s mum Joan, who was the chef at the famous Rockfield recording studios in Wales, cooked for some of the biggest music stars of the 1970s. 100 Happy Poems, edited by Jane McMorland Hunter is published by Batsford on 9 May, £12.99 The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley ★★★☆☆ open image in gallery Debut novel ‘The Ministry of …

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Colm Tóibín’s latest tale is bound together by the tension between secrecy and revelation
8 months ago

Colm Tóibín’s latest tale is bound together by the tension between secrecy and revelation

LA Times  

Book Review Long Island By Colm Tóibín Scribner Book Company: 304 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. The author, who’s specialized in the novelized lives of repressed literary masters with elaborate prose styles — Henry James in “The Master,” Thomas Mann in “The …

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Why so many of the world's best writers hail from Ireland, from James Joyce to Colm Tóibín
1 year, 6 months ago

Why so many of the world's best writers hail from Ireland, from James Joyce to Colm Tóibín

ABC  

It's arguably the literary capital of the world. "Many Irish writers left Dublin because of a repressive censoring state, and certainly the great Irish modernists, like James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, got out of Dublin," he says. "I think one of the reasons that Irish writers respond so strongly to modernism is that there's a sense … 'We need to …

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Books of the month: From Jonathan Coe’s Bournville to Bob Dylan’s essays
2 years, 2 months ago

Books of the month: From Jonathan Coe’s Bournville to Bob Dylan’s essays

The Independent  

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Gautam Bhatia reviews Annie Zaidi’s ‘City of Incident’
2 years, 10 months ago

Gautam Bhatia reviews Annie Zaidi’s ‘City of Incident’

The Hindu  

Inhis novel, The Master, Colm Tóibín writes of an English house that, “in its detail and its dialogue, its slow movements and its mystery… stood against abstraction, against the greyness and foolishness of large concepts.” In the slowness of detail, Tóibín finds a fragility, something “barely present”, but something that is nonetheless “closer to the range of human feeling” than …

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The best books of the year 2021
3 years, 9 months ago

The best books of the year 2021

BBC  

The best books of the year 2021 From award-winning fiction to moving memoir, here are BBC Culture's top reading picks of 2021. The New York Times praises the novelist's "sentences of unusual beauty and clarity," adding that he is "gifted at atmospheric, sensory description that transports the reader." The New York Times called Tóibín's sweeping biographical tome "a symphonic and …

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The Age of Innocence: How a US classic defined its era
4 years, 3 months ago

The Age of Innocence: How a US classic defined its era

BBC  

The Age of Innocence: How a US classic defined its era Getty Images In the first of BBC Culture’s series The American Century, Cameron Laux looks at how The Age of Innocence – published 100 years ago – marked a pivotal moment in US history. Janet Beer, professor of literature at Liverpool University and a Wharton expert, tells me that …

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