AI will continue to affect writers existentially and economically – but does the human touch still matter to us more?

Colm Toibin, the great Irish poet and novelist, joins us now. So let's not fritter away any more time before he reads a poem. Colm, could you please read "Prayer To St. Agnes"? COLM TOIBIN: (Reading) ...

The great short-story writer’s female protagonists often do the opposite of what they intend. Being unmoored by loss affects their every thought ...

Oprah has announced her latest book club pick. Oprah selected a novel named “Long Island” by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín, which centers around an Irish immigrant living in New York’s Long Island. "It's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Author Colm Toibin poses for photographers during the photo call for Brooklyn, in London, Oct. 12, 2015. “The Magician” by ...

Through a series of accessible essays, lectures, and reviews that rove from Jane Austen to Brian Moore—many of which appeared in either the London or New York Review of Books— Tóibín explores the ...

Colm Toibin's new novel opens with a heartbreaker of a dilemma. His main character, Eilis Lacey, opens her front door to a stranger who accuses Eilis' husband of having an affair with his wife, an ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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, ...

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 ...