“It is not our job to like or dislike characters in fiction,” Colm Tóibín writes in the preface to his new essay collection, New Ways to Kill Your Mother (Scribner, 352 pp., $26.00). “We can do that with real people and, if we like, figures from history.” Read More
Heading to Brooklyn: it’s a life change made by NY1′s Pat Kiernan, zillions of adulterous mommies, and now Westchester native Rooney Mara. Ms. Mara’s arrival in the borough comes with a set of italics, though–she’s set to play the lead in an adaptation of Colm Toibin’s novel Brooklyn. Ms. Mara is to Read More
The London Review of Books 30th anniversary celebration culminated in a panel discussion of “The Author in the Age of the Internet”: James Wood, Colm Toibin, John Lanchester, and Mary-Kay Wilmers joined moderator and LRB publisher Nicholas Spice on Saturday night at the New School.
A quick poll revealed that none of the panelists had Read More
