‘What is your nation, if I may ask?’Colm Tóibín
This article is not currently available online. Buy reprint of this article. Colm Tóibín is Stein Visiting Writer at Stanford University. His essay in this issue is based on a lecture he gave at the University of Genoa’s Ford Madox Ford conference. Other articles by this contributor: Don’t abandon me · Borges and the Maids The Wickedest Woman in Paris · Rupert Everett How to be a wife · The Discretion of Jackie Kennedy Dissecting the Body · Ian McEwan A Man with My Trouble · Henry James leaves home Issues of Truth and Invention · Francis Stuart’s wartime broadcasts Roaming the Greenwood · A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition by Gregory Woods My Darlings · Drinking with Samuel Beckett |