Colm Tóibín, Robert Macfarlane, Elif Shafak, Michael Rosen and more share the novels, poetry and memoirs that make the perfect gift
I love giving books as presents. I rarely give anything else. I stro…
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3 months ago
UBS chair warns of ‘looming systemic risk’ from private credit ratings ⊖
Colm Kelleher says insurers are shopping for ratings as banks did before 2008 financial crisis
4 months ago
Colm Tóibín: Why I set up a press to publish Nobel winner László Krasznahorkai ⊖
The Irish novelist discovered the Hungarian writer two decades ago, and was excited by the verbal pyrotechnics of a rule-breaking storyteller
That Christmas – it was almost 20 years ago – I came back …
8 months ago
Edmund White remembered: ‘He was the patron saint of queer literature’ ○
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Colm Tóibín, Alan Hollinghurst, Adam Mars-Jones and more recall the high style and libidinous freedom of a writer who ‘was not a gateway to gay literature but a main destination’
• Edmund White, novel…
11 months ago
‘Much darker than Pride and Prejudice!’: authors pick their favourite Jane Austen novel ○
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Colm Tóibín, Katherine Rundell, Rebecca Kuang and other leading novelists celebrate the author in her 250th year
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Continue reading...Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy review – incurable sadness if bravely borne ○
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Colm Tóibín introduces this welcome reprint of the US author and critic’s poignant account of orphanhood, first published in 1957
Mary McCarthy was a formidable, not to say frightening, figure in the …
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