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Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín is the author of eight novels, including The Master and Brooklyn, and two story collections. His play The Testament of Mary was nominated for the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University.

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In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition

Interview

Colm Tóibín & William Atkins

‘I think he saw the German spirit as one in which suffering or an appreciation of suffering was essential.’

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Letters to Donald Trump

Various Contributors

Six writers and translators respond to Donald Trump’s travel bans. ‘It is always easy to invent enemies; it merely takes a failure of imagination.’

Fiction | Issue 135 padlock
Fiction | Issue 135 padlock

A Visit to the Zoo

Colm Tóibín

‘The two chameleons in a glass case appeared to interest all of them, Heinrich thought, because of their beauty and their stillness. They looked like a pale painting.’

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