A DOCUMENTARY that was due to celebrate Niall Toibin’s 90th birthday will now pay tribute to his life instead — after he died eight days before the milestone. Pierce Brosnan, Fionnuala Flanagan, ...

Voices, cadence, pacing: These 8 sublime audiobooks do everything right. By Lauren Christensen Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Now a suburban married mother, Eilis ...

Colm Toibin considers the life and achievement of German novelist Thomas Mann in his latest book "The Magician". Nobel Prize winner and author of several of the most celebrated novels of the 20th ...

For Irish playwright and novelist Colm Tóibín, writing history depends more on emotional truth than literal facts. “I make it up if I thought it would fit,” he said during “Writing Thomas Mann: Fact ...

Niall Tóibín, famed Irish actor who starred alongside actors like Tom Cruise and Pierce Brosnan, died Wednesday after a long battle with an undisclosed illness. He was 89. Born in Cork to native Irish ...

Colm Tóibín, author of “Brooklyn” and “The Empty Family” first encountered “The Children’s Grandmother,” by Sylvia Townsend Warner, in an old collection of New Yorker short stories that he bought at a ...

Up against John Banville and Colum McCann in an unending round-robin (The Favored Irish Writer Cup), Colm Toibin is an international literary figure. We know the deal with the international literary ...

Niall Toibin, the Irish veteran of stage and screen who won a Drama Desk Award and appeared in films directed by David Lean, Ron Howard and Joel Schumacher, died Wednesday in Dublin. He was 89. By ...

‘Listen,” Colm Tóibín says. I listen, though there is nothing to hear. “And it gets even quieter at night,” he adds, “because nearly all the properties around here are used as offices.” We are ...