An aging High Court judge in Dublin, while presiding over a landmark case involving a young girl whose had an abortion, reveals to the reader the repressed difficult childhood that led him to an adult life of personal estrangement. Colm Toíbín’s second novel (1992): slow, quiet, astonishing.
“Just follow.” He took off, pushing the larger ferns from his face. There were two paths to choose from, both…
“In journalism, immediacy is a valuable commodity. The journalist doesn’t want facts to become clouded by reflection. But literary…
“From the day Jane walked out our front door — taking everything of value she could stuff in her car,…
