Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín’s New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families, which came out last year, includes several of his essays for the LRB.

In the LRB Archive:

• 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

• Flann O’Brien’s Lies · 5 January 2012

• Mann v. Mann: The Brother Problem · 3 November 2011

  • House of Exile: War, Love and Literature, from Berlin to Los Angeles by Evelyn Juers

• The Importance of Aunts · 17 March 2011

• Among the Flutterers: The Pope Wears Prada · 19 August 2010

  • The Pope Is Not Gay by Angelo Quattrocchi, translated by Romy Clark Giuliani

• The Author in the Age of the Internet · 24 April 2010

• The Stubbornness of Lorenzo Lotto · 8 April 2010

• My God, the Suburbs!: John Cheever · 5 November 2009

  • Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey

• 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

• 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

• Urning: The revolutionary Edward Carpenter · 29 January 2009

  • Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love by Sheila Rowbotham

• 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

• The Art of Being Found Out: the need to be revealed · 20 March 2008

• 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

• The Wickedest Woman in Paris: Rupert Everett · 6 September 2007

  • Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett

• Dissecting the Body: Ian McEwan · 26 April 2007

  • On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

• My Darlings: Drinking with Samuel Beckett · 5 April 2007

• Avoid the Orient: The Ghastly Paul Bowles · 4 January 2007

  • Paul Bowles: A Life by Virginia Spencer Carr

• Don’t abandon me: Borges and the Maids · 11 May 2006

  • Borges: A Life by Edwin Williamson

• At St Peter’s: The Dangers of a Priestly Education · 1 December 2005

  • The Ferns Report by Francis Murphy, Helen Buckley and Laraine Joyce

• 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

• 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

• A Priest in the Family: A Story · 6 May 2004

• 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

• A Djinn speaks: What about George Yeats? · 20 February 2003

  • Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W.B. Yeats by Ann Saddlemyer

• 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

• The Last Witness: The career of James Baldwin · 20 September 2001

• Love in a Dark Time: Oscar Wilde · 19 April 2001

  • The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis

• Issues of Truth and Invention: Francis Stuart’s wartime broadcasts · 4 January 2001

  • The Wartime Broadcasts of Francis Stuart edited by Brendan Barrington

• Gaelic Gloom: Brian Moore · 10 August 2000

  • Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist by Denis Sampson

• ‘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

• Roaming the Greenwood on 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

• Erasures: The Great Irish Famine · 30 July 1998

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Playboys of the GPO · 18 April 1996

  • Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation by Declan Kiberd

• On (Not) Saying What You Mean · 30 November 1995

• Like Learning to Swim in Early Middle Age · 20 April 1995

  • Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs and an Interview by Thom Gunn

• The South · 4 August 1994

  • One Art: The Selected Letters of Elizabeth Bishop edited by Robert Giroux

• How many nipples had Graham Greene? · 9 June 1994

• Insiderish · 26 May 1994

  • Profane Friendship by Harold Brodkey

• Diary · 6 January 1994

• New Ways of Killing Your Father · 18 November 1993

  • Paddy and Mr Punch: Connections in Irish and English History by R.F. Foster

• So much for shame · 10 June 1993

  • Haughey: His Life and Unlucky Deeds by Bruce Arnold

• 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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