Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín’s novel The Testament of Mary will be published next month.
In the LRB Archive:
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A Man of No Mind: The Passion of Roger Casement · 13 September 2012
- The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Edith Grossman
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On Some Days of the Week: Mrs Oscar Wilde · 10 May 2012
- Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde by Franny Moyle
- The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition by Oscar Wilde, edited by Nicholas Frankel
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Flann O’Brien’s Lies · 5 January 2012
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Mann v. Mann: The Brother Problem · 3 November 2011
- House of Exile: War, Love and Literature, from Berlin to Los Angeles by Evelyn Juers
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The Importance of Aunts · 17 March 2011
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Among the Flutterers: The Pope Wears Prada · 19 August 2010
- The Pope Is Not Gay by Angelo Quattrocchi, translated by Romy Clark Giuliani
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The Author in the Age of the Internet · 24 April 2010
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The Stubbornness of Lorenzo Lotto · 8 April 2010
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My God, the Suburbs!: John Cheever · 5 November 2009
- Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey
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Who to Be: Beckett’s Letters · 6 August 2009
- The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929-40 edited by Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and Lois More Overbeck
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Follow-the-Leader: Bishop v. Lowell · 14 May 2009
- Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell edited by Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton
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Urning: The revolutionary Edward Carpenter · 29 January 2009
- Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love by Sheila Rowbotham
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I Could Sleep with All of Them: the Mann Family · 6 November 2008
- In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story by Andrea Weiss
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The Art of Being Found Out: the need to be revealed · 20 March 2008
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A Man with My Trouble: Henry James leaves home · 3 January 2008
- The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855-72: Volume I edited by Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias
- The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855-72: Volume II edited by Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias
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The Wickedest Woman in Paris: Rupert Everett · 6 September 2007
- Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett
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Dissecting the Body: Ian McEwan · 26 April 2007
- On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
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My Darlings: Drinking with Samuel Beckett · 5 April 2007
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Avoid the Orient: The Ghastly Paul Bowles · 4 January 2007
- Paul Bowles: A Life by Virginia Spencer Carr
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Don’t abandon me: Borges and the Maids · 11 May 2006
- Borges: A Life by Edwin Williamson
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At St Peter’s: The Dangers of a Priestly Education · 1 December 2005
- The Ferns Report by Francis Murphy, Helen Buckley and Laraine Joyce
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In His Pink Negligée: The Ruthless Truman Capote · 21 April 2005
- The Complete Stories by Truman Capote
- Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote edited by Gerald Clarke
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I was Mary Queen of Scots: biographical empathy · 21 October 2004
- My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots by John Guy
- Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane Dunn
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A Priest in the Family: A Story · 6 May 2004
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Rinse it in dead champagne: The women who invented beauty · 5 February 2004
- War Paint: Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden: Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry by Lindy Woodhead
- Diana Vreeland by Eleanor Dwight
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A Djinn speaks: What about George Yeats? · 20 February 2003
- Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W.B. Yeats by Ann Saddlemyer
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How to be a wife: The Discretion of Jackie Kennedy · 6 June 2002
- Janet & Jackie: The Story of a Mother and Her Daughter, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Jan Pottker
- Mrs Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years by Barbara Leaming
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The Last Witness: The career of James Baldwin · 20 September 2001
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Love in a Dark Time: Oscar Wilde · 19 April 2001
- The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis
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Issues of Truth and Invention: Francis Stuart’s wartime broadcasts · 4 January 2001
- The Wartime Broadcasts of Francis Stuart edited by Brendan Barrington
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Gaelic Gloom: Brian Moore · 10 August 2000
- Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist by Denis Sampson
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‘What is your nation if I may ask?’: Jews in Ireland · 30 September 1999
- Jews in 20th-century Ireland: Refugees, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust by Dermot Keogh
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Roaming the Greenwood: A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition by Gregory Woods · 21 January 1999
- A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition by Gregory Woods
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Erasures: The Great Irish Famine · 30 July 1998
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A Whale of a Time · 2 October 1997
- Roger Casement’s Diaries. 1910: The Black and the White edited by Roger Sawyer
- The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement edited by Angus Mitchell
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He’ll have brought it on Himself · 22 May 1997
- Sex, Nation and Dissent in Irish Writing edited by Éibhear Walshe
- Gooddbye to Catholic Ireland by Mary Kenny
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A House Full of No One · 6 February 1997
- Heaven’s Coast: A Memoir by Mark Doty
- Atlantis by Mark Doty
- This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death by Harold Brodkey
- PWA: Looking Aids in the Face by Oscar Moore
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Why should you be the only ones that sin? · 5 September 1996
- Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature by Anthony Heilbut
- Thomas Mann: A Biography by Ronald Hayman
- Thomas Mann: A Life by Donald Prater
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Playboys of the GPO · 18 April 1996
- Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation by Declan Kiberd
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On (Not) Saying What You Mean · 30 November 1995
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Like Learning to Swim in Early Middle Age · 20 April 1995
- Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs and an Interview by Thom Gunn
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The South · 4 August 1994
- One Art: The Selected Letters of Elizabeth Bishop edited by Robert Giroux
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How many nipples had Graham Greene? · 9 June 1994
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Insiderish · 26 May 1994
- Profane Friendship by Harold Brodkey
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Diary · 6 January 1994
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New Ways of Killing Your Father · 18 November 1993
- Paddy and Mr Punch: Connections in Irish and English History by R.F. Foster
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So much for shame · 10 June 1993
- Haughey: His Life and Unlucky Deeds by Bruce Arnold
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The Built-in Reader · 8 April 1993
- Dream of Fair to Middling Women by Samuel Beckett, edited by Eoin O’Brien and Edith Fournier
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