Colm Tóibín bibliography

Colm Tóibín FRSL (/ˈkʌləm toʊˈbiːn/ KUL-əm toh-BEEN,[1] Irish: [ˈkɔl̪ˠəmˠ t̪ˠoːˈbʲiːnʲ]; born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet.[2][3] He has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the International Dublin Literary Award, the Hawthornden Prize, the David Cohen Prize and the Folio Prize, amongst other awards.

Articles

Asked in 2021 how many articles he had written, Tóibín was uncertain: "I suppose thousands might be accurate", he told The New Yorker.[1]

Literary book reviews

Year Review article Work(s) reviewed
1993 Tóibín, Colm (8 April 1993). "The Built-in Reader". London Review of Books. Vol. 15, no. 7. Beckett, Samuel (1992). O'Brien, Eoin; Fournier, Edith (eds.). Dream of Fair to Middling Women. Black Cat. ISBN 0-7145-4212-1.
1994 Tóibín, Colm (26 May 1994). "Insiderish". London Review of Books. Vol. 16, no. 10. Brodkey, Harold (1994). Profane Friendship. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0-224-03775-7.
1994 Tóibín, Colm (4 August 1994). "The South". London Review of Books. Vol. 16, no. 15. One Art: The Selected Letters of Elizabeth Bishop. Chatto & Windus. 1994. ISBN 0-7011-6195-7.
1995 Tóibín, Colm (20 April 1995). "Like Learning to Swim in Early Middle Age". London Review of Books. Vol. 17, no. 8. Gunn, Thom (1994). Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs and an Interview. Faber & Faber. ISBN 0-571-17196-6.
1996 Tóibín, Colm (5 September 1996). "Why should you be the only ones that sin?". London Review of Books. Vol. 18, no. 17. Heilbut, Anthony (1996). Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-39-455633-8.;
Hayman, Ronald (1996). Thomas Mann: A Biography. Bloomsbury. ISBN 0-7475-2531-5.;
Prater, Donald (1995). Thomas Mann: A Life. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-815861-0.
2000 Tóibín, Colm (10 August 2000). "Gaelic Gloom". London Review of Books. Vol. 22, no. 15. Sampson, Denis (1998). Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist. Marino Books. ISBN 1-86023-078-4.
2003 Tóibín, Colm (4 February 2003). "A Djinn speaks". London Review of Books. Vol. 25, no. 4. Saddlemyer, Ann (2002). Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W. B. Yeats. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-811232-7.
2004 Tóibín, Colm (7 October 2004). "Return to Catalonia". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LI, no. 15. Cercas, Javier; McLean, Anne (2004). Soldiers of Salamis. Bloosmbury. ISBN 978-1582343846.
2006 Tóibín, Colm (11 May 2006). "Don't abandon me". London Review of Books. Vol. 28, no. 9. Williamson, Edwin (2005). Borges: A Life. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-024657-6.
2006 Tóibín, Colm (30 November 2006). "A Thousand Prayers". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LIII, no. 19. Li, Yiyun (2005). A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Random House. ISBN 978-1400063123.
2007 Tóibín, Colm (26 April 2007). "Dissecting the Body". London Review of Books. Vol. 29, no. 8. McEwan, Ian (2007). On Chesil Beach. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-08118-4.
2008 Tóibín, Colm (20 December 2007). "The Shadow of Rose". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LIV, no. 20. Williams, Tennessee (2007). Bradham Thornton, Margaret (ed.). Notebooks. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300116823.
2008 Tóibín, Colm (3 January 2008). "A Man with My Trouble". London Review of Books. Vol. 30, no. 1. Walker, Pierre; Zacharias, Greg (2007). The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855–72: Volume I. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-2584-8.;
Walker, Pierre; Zacharias, Greg (2007). The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855–72: Volume II. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-2607-4.
2008 Tóibín, Colm (17 April 2008). "A Great American Visionary". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LV, no. 6. Crane, Hart (2006). Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters. Library of America. ISBN 978-1931082990.
2008 Tóibín, Colm (6 November 2008). "I Could Sleep with All of Them". London Review of Books. Vol. 30, no. 21. Weiss, Andrea (2008). In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-88672-5.
2009 Tóibín, Colm (14 May 2009). "Follow-the-Leader". London Review of Books. Vol. 31, no. 9. Travisano, Thomas; Hamilton, Saskia, eds. (2008). Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-24308-2.
2009 Tóibín, Colm (11 June 2009). "The Admirable Mrs James". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LVI, no. 10. Gunter, Susan, E. (2009). Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0803215696.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link);
Fisher, Paul (2008). House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family. Henry Holt. ISBN 978-0805074901.
2009 Tóibín, Colm (6 August 2009). "Who to Be". London Review of Books. Vol. 31, no. 15. Dow Fehsenfeld, Martha; More Overback, Lois, eds. (2009). The Letters of Samuel Beckett, 1929–40. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-86793-1.
2009 Tóibín, Colm (5 November 2009). "My God, the Suburbs!". London Review of Books. Vol. 31, no. 21. Bailey, Blake (2009). Cheever: A Life. Picador. ISBN 978-0-330-43790-5.
2010 Tóibín, Colm (14 January 2010). "The Genius of Thom Gunn". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LVII, no. 1. Gunn, Thom (2009). Kleinzahler, August (ed.). Selected Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374258597.;
Greville, Fulke (2009). Gunn, Thom (ed.). Selected Poems of Fulke Greville. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226308463.;
Weiner, Joshua, ed. (2009). At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-89043-2.
2011 Tóibín, Colm (29 September 2011). "The Mysterious Powers of the Word". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LVIII, no. 14. Gordimer, Nadine (2011). Life Times: Stories, 1952–2007. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374270537.;
Gordimer, Nadine (2010). Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950–2008. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-06628-9.
2011 Tóibín, Colm (3 November 2011). "Mann v. Mann". London Review of Books. Vol. 33, no. 21. Juers, Evelyn (2011). House of Exile: War, Love and Literature, from Berlin to Los Angeles. Allen Lane. ISBN 978-1-84614-461-5.
2012 Tóibín, Colm (10 May 2012). "Going Beyond the Limits". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LIX, no. 8. Barnes, Julian (2011). The Sense of an Ending. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-224-09415-3.
2012 Tóibín, Colm (13 September 2012). "A Man of No Mind". London Review of Books. Vol. 34, no. 17. Vargas Llosa, Mario; Grossman, Edith (2012). The Dream of the Celt. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-27571-7.
2012 Tóibín, Colm (9 December 2012). "The Book of Kells by Bernard Meehan – review: A scholarly update of a book illustrated by monks reveals why it meant so much to James Joyce". The Guardian. Meehan, Bernard (2012). The Book of Kells. Thames & Hudson.[4]
2013 Tóibín, Colm (8 August 2013). "Places Never Explained". London Review of Books. Vol. 35, no. 15. Post, Jonathan, ed. (2012). The Selected Letters of Anthony Hecht. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-0730-2.
2014 Tóibín, Colm (10 July 2014). "Lust and Loss in Madrid: The novels of Javier Marías and Antonio Muñoz Molina". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LXI, no. 12. Marías, Javier; Jull Costa, Margaret (2013). The Infatuations. Knopf. ISBN 978-0307960726.;
Muñoz Molina, Antonio; Grossman, Edith (2013). In The Night of Time. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0547547848.
2014 Tóibín, Colm (23 October 2014). "Putting Religion in Its Place". London Review of Books. Vol. 36, no. 20. Robinson, Marilynne (2014). Lila. Virago. ISBN 978-1-84408-880-5.
2015 Tóibín, Colm (9 July 2015). "The Hard-Won Truth of the North". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LXII, no. 12. Dagerman, Stig; Macpherson Fulton, Robin (2011). German Autumn. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0816677528.;
Dagerman, Stig; Thompson, Laurie (2012). Island of the Doomed. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0816677986.;
Dagerman, Stig; Mier-Cruz, Benjamin (2013). A Burnt Child. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0816677993.;
Dagerman, Stig; Hartman, Steven (2013). Sleet: Selected Stories. Godine. ISBN 978-1567924466.
2015 Tóibín, Colm (17 December 2015). "She Played Hard with Happiness". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LXII, no. 20. Lispector, Clarice; Dodson, Katrina (2015). Moser, Benjamin (ed.). The Complete Stories. New Directions. ISBN 9780811219631.
2017 Tóibín, Colm (11 May 2017). "Shadows & Ghosts". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LXIV, no. 8. Coetzee, J. M. (2017). The Schooldays of Jesus. Viking. ISBN 978-0735222663.
2017 Tóibín, Colm (6 July 2017). "Joyce in Court and The Ulysses Trials review". The Guardian. Hardiman, Adrian (2017). Joyce in Court. Head of Zeus. ISBN 9781786691583.;
Hassett, Joseph M. (2016). The Ulysses Trials: Beauty and Truth Meet the Law. The Lilliput Press. ISBN 978-1843516682.
2018 Tóibín, Colm (22 February 2018). "The Heart of Conrad". The New York Review of Books. Vol. 65, no. 3. pp. 8–11. Jasanoff, Maya. The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World. Penguin.
2018 Tóibín, Colm (13 September 2018). "On Not Being Sylvia Plath". London Review of Books. Vol. 40, no. 17. Gunn, Thom (2017). Selected Poems. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-32769-0.
2018 Tóibín, Colm (11 October 2018). "The Aristocracy's Swann Song". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LXV, no. 15. Weber, Caroline (2018). Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris. Knopf. ISBN 978-0307961785.
2020 Tóibín, Colm (7 May 2020). "Wobble in My Mind". London Review of Books. Vol. 42, no. 9. Hamilton, Saskia, ed. (2020). The Dolphin Letters, 1970–79: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell and Their Circle. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-35741-3.;
Lowell, Robert (2019). Hamilton, Saskia (ed.). The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972–73. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-53827-9.
2021 Tóibín, Colm (10 June 2021). "We Must Be Light!". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LXVIII, no. 10. Hammer, Langdon; Yenser, Stephen, eds. (2021). A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill. Knopf. ISBN 978-1-101-87550-6.
2021 Tóibín, Colm (1 August 2021). "The Pages by Hugo Hamilton review – a book with a story to tell". The Guardian. Hamilton, Hugo (2021). The Pages. 4th Estate. ISBN 978-0008451660.
2021 Tóibín, Colm (12 August 2021). "I haven't been I". London Review of Books. Vol. 43, no. 16. Zenith, Richard (2021). Pessoa: An Experimental Life. Allen Lane. ISBN 978-0-241-53413-7.
2022 Tóibín, Colm (27 January 2022). "Snail Slow". London Review of Books. Vol. 44, no. 2. Shovlin, Frank, ed. (2021). The Letters of John McGahern. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-32666-2.
2023 Tóibín, Colm (7 September 2023). "Arruginated". London Review of Books. Vol. 45, no. 17. Slote, Sam; Mamigonian, Marc A.; Turner, John (2022). Annotations to James Joyce's 'Ulysses'. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-886458-5.
2023 Tóibín, Colm (21 December 2023). "In the Streets of Barcelona". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LXX, no. 20. Goytisolo, Luis; Riley, Brendan (2022). Antagonía [es]. Dalkey Archive Press. ISBN 978-1628973983.

Introductions

Year Article Subject Notes
2024 Tóibín, Colm (5 October 2024). "Colm Tóibín on poet Paul Durcan turning 80: 'Beside the wildness, there is tenderness'". The Irish Times. Paul Durcan This is the introduction to 80 at 80, a selection of the poet's works, which was edited by Niall MacMonagle and published on 16 October 2024, to coincide with Durcan's 80th birthday.

Himself, on his own work

Year Article Subject Notes
2012 Tóibín, Colm (17 February 2012). "Colm Tóibín: writers and their families". The Guardian. Himself and his family; his novel The Heather Blazing With discursions onto W. B. Yeats; V. S. Naipaul; Jorge Luis Borges; George Moore; James Joyce; John Millington Synge; Henry James; the Mann family; James Baldwin; Samuel Beckett
2012 Tóibín, Colm (19 October 2012). "The inspiration for The Testament of Mary". The Guardian. His novel The Testament of Mary On Mary, mother of Jesus[5]
2013 Tóibín, Colm (23 May 2013). "Those Dickens Kids: What Happened?". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LX, no. 9. His novel The South —
2014 Tóibín, Colm (2 October 2014). "Colm Tóibín: the literature of grief". The Guardian. His novel Nora Webster With discursions onto Mary Lavin's short stories; Hamlet; Anne Carson, Euripides, Sophocles and Fiona Shaw; C. S. Lewis, Julian Barnes and Joyce Carol Oates; Joan Didion and Francisco Goldman; Nadine Gordimer and Juan Goytisolo
Year Article Subject Notes
1994 Tóibín, Colm (9 June 1994). "How many nipples had Graham Greene?". London Review of Books. Vol. 16, no. 11. Graham Greene Auctioning his letters
2001 Tóibín, Colm (9 August 2001). "Lady Gregory's Toothbrush". The New York Review of Books. Vol. XLVIII, no. 13. — —
2001 Tóibín, Colm (20 September 2001). "The Last Witness". London Review of Books. Vol. 23, no. 18. James Baldwin Also covers Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement and William Styron
2006 Tóibín, Colm (9 February 2006). "Henry James's New York". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LIII, no. 2. Henry James —
2006 Tóibín, Colm (27 April 2006). "Happy Birthday, Sam!". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LIII, no. 7. Samuel Beckett Including his attendance at a lecture by Carl Jung
2007 Tóibín, Colm (5 April 2007). "My Darlings". London Review of Books. Vol. 29, no. 7. Samuel Beckett His Irish actors
2007 Tóibín, Colm (19 July 2007). "Creating 'The Portrait of a Lady'". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LIV, no. 12. Henry James (and George Eliot) —
2008 Tóibín, Colm (20 March 2008). "The Art of Being Found Out". London Review of Books. Vol. 30, no. 6. Henry James —
2008 Tóibín, Colm (23 October 2008). "James Baldwin & Barack Obama". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LV, no. 16. James Baldwin —
2009 Tóibín, Colm (26 October 2009). "Hopkins: The Odd Man Out". The New York Review of Books (online). Gerard Manley Hopkins —
2011 Tóibín, Colm (17 March 2011). "The Importance of Aunts". London Review of Books. Vol. 33, no. 6. — (in the 19th-century novel)
2012 Tóibín, Colm (15 June 2012). "Colm Tóibín on Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers". The Guardian. Dubliners Published the day before Bloomsday, in a month when James Joyce's short story collection was resissued
2012 Tóibín, Colm (10 August 2012). "Brian Friel: trapped in silence". The Guardian. Brian Friel —
2013 Tóibín, Colm (22 February 2013). "The Sweet Troubles of Proust". The New York Review of Books (online). Marcel Proust —
2013 Tóibín, Colm (30 August 2013). "Seamus Heaney's books were events in our lives". The Guardian. Seamus Heaney His generosity; Dennis O'Driscoll; Peter Brook; the change in Heaney's work after his eighth collection Seeing Things (1991)
2014 Tóibín, Colm (18 January 2014). "Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star is as bewildering as it is brilliant". The Guardian. The Hour of the Star In the month that this, with other Clarice Lipsector titles, was reissued
2015 Tóibín, Colm (15 April 2015). "Gawking at Quixote". The New York Review of Books (online). Don Quixote —
2015 Tóibín, Colm (28 August 2015). "I embraced Henry James's fight against complacency". The Guardian. The Ambassadors The effects this Henry James novel had on Tóibín
2016 Tóibín, Colm (29 December 2016). "James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist , 100 years on". The Guardian. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 29 December 2016 was the centenary of its publication.
2016 Tóibín, Colm (29 December 2016). "Colm Tóibín on that fine writer Anthony Cronin". The Irish Times. Anthony Cronin See below
2017 Tóibín, Colm (24 January 2017). "Anthony Cronin obituary". The Guardian. Anthony Cronin Obituary for "an important mentor" of Tóibín
2020 Tóibín, Colm (9 October 2020). "Louise Glück: Colm Tóibín on a brave and truthful Nobel winner". The Guardian. Louise Glück 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature
2023 Tóibín, Colm (17 October 2023). "Louise Glück: a poet who never shied away from silence, pain or fear". The Guardian. Louise Glück Response to Glück's death
2024 Tóibín, Colm (2 August 2024). "The Pitch of Passion". The New York Review of Books (online). Go Tell It on the Mountain 2 August 2024 was the centennial of James Baldwin's birth.
  • "Freud and the Writers", in Blauner, Andrew, ed., On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2024, ISBN 9780691242439

Articles on other topics

Year Article Subject Notes
1994 Tóibín, Colm (6 January 1994). "In the Pyrenees". London Review of Books. Vol. 16, no. 1. —
1998 Tóibín, Colm (30 July 1998). "Erasures". London Review of Books. Vol. 20, no. 15. The Great Famine —
2001 Tóibín, Colm (29 November 2001). "11 September". London Review of Books. Vol. 23, no. 23. September 11 attacks Opposing Mary Beard's excuses for the September 11 attackers
2009 Tóibín, Colm (15 December 2009). "Missing the Point". London Review of Books. Art, allegory and urination —
2021 Tóibín, Colm (21 January 2021). "The Bergoglio Smile". London Review of Books. Vol. 43, no. 2. Pope Francis —

Poems

Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
"Cush Gap, 2007" 2011 The Times Literary Supplement[2] Cush Gap, a location in County Wexford, is also mentioned in works such as Brooklyn.
"Miró"; "In San Clemente"; "Lost for Words"; "Face"; "The Torturer's Art" 2017 The Times Literary Supplement[6] —
"Father & Son" 2021 The New York Review of Books[7] —
"Vinegar Hill" 2022 The New Yorker[8] —

Short stories

Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
"A Priest in the Family" 2004 London Review of Books[9] Mothers and Sons —
"Barcelona, 1975" 2005 The Dublin Review[10] On the first orgy that Toibín attended at the age of twenty, at the house of an older painter. "The story is entirely real", Tóibín later said.[1]
"One Minus One" 2007 Tóibín, Colm (30 April 2007). "One Minus One". The New Yorker. Vol. 91, no. 5. pp. 78–83. About the death of his mother[1]
"Sleep" 2015 Tóibín, Colm (23 March 2015). "Sleep". The New Yorker. Vol. 91, no. 5. pp. 78–83. —
"Summer of '38" 2013 Tóibín, Colm (4 March 2013). "Summer of '38". The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 3. pp. 58–65. —

Books

Non-fiction

Collaborative

As editor

Novels

Poetry collections

Short story collections

Plays

  • Beauty in a Broken Place (staged in Dublin in 2004)

Screenwriting

References

  1. ^ a b c d Max, D. T. (20 September 2021). "How Colm Tóibín Burrowed Inside Thomas Mann's Head". The New Yorker.
  2. ^ a b "Toibin tries his hand at poetry . . ". Irish Independent. Dublin. 18 June 2011.
  3. ^ Barnett, Laura (19 February 2013). "Colm Tóibín, novelist – portrait of the artist". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  4. ^ "New Book on 'The Book of Kells' by TCD Keeper of Manuscripts Dr Bernard Meehan Launched". Trinity College Dublin. 20 November 2012.
  5. ^ Hodge, Joel (16 January 2017). "Who was Mary? And how plausible is Colm Tóibín's reconstruction of her?". The Conversation.
  6. ^ "Five Poems". The Times Literary Supplement. 31 March 2017.
  7. ^ Tóibín, Colm (2 December 2021). "Father & Son". The New York Review of Books. LXVIII (19).
  8. ^ Tóibín, Colm (21 March 2022). "Vinegar Hill". The New Yorker.
  9. ^ "A Priest in the Family". London Review of Books. 6 May 2004.
  10. ^ "Remembering sex, books and music – especially sex – on the eve of Franco's death [memoir]". Dublin Review. Spring 2005.
  11. ^ Tóibín, Colm (9 August 2001). "Lady Gregory's Toothbrush". The New York Review of Books. Vol. XLVIII, no. 13.
  12. ^ http://www.panmacmillan.com/Titles/displayPage.asp?PageTitle=Individual%20Title&BookID=386178[permanent dead link‍]
  13. ^ "Thames & Hudson Publishers | Essential illustrated art books | Sean Scully - Walls of Aran". Archived from the original on 9 January 2015. Retrieved 2014-12-03.
  14. ^ "A Guest at the Feast. A Memoir | Colm Tóibín Official Website". www.colmtoibin.com. Archived from the original on 4 February 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  15. ^ Tóibín, Colm (11 April 2015). "A tale of two poets, Thom Gunn and Elizabeth Bishop". The Guardian.
  16. ^ "Another Ireland: the revealing photographs of Tony O'Shea". The Irish Times. 10 November 2020. The Irish writer Colm Tóibín was first introduced to the photographs of Tony O'Shea when he was editor In Dublin magazine in the late 1970s... The photographs, Tóibín observed, in the introduction to their landmark collaborative book of 1990, Dubliners, 'were like nothing I'd ever seen'.
  17. ^ Tóibín, Colm (19 October 2012). "The Testament of Mary – extract". The Guardian.
  18. ^ Hodge, Joel (16 January 2017). "Who was Mary? And how plausible is Colm Tóibín's reconstruction of her?". The Conversation.
  19. ^ Clarke, Donald (6 October 2017). "Return to Montauk review: Sadly this Colm Tóibín-assisted effort has none of the warmth of his best work". The Irish Times.