John Banville is surely the only crime novelist in recent memory who has won the Booker Prize and is regularly rumored to be in the running for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Sometimes you have to leave home to find home. That’s the paradox of the immigrant experience, portrayed beautifully in “Brooklyn.”

“Small Things Like These” is dedicated to the girls and babies who went through the Magdalene laundries, the last of which closed in 1996.

Rooney’s novel ends up as an overlong interlude, poised between significant moments, not substantial enough to compose its own movement.

Colm Tóibín's new novel, 'Long Island,' is a sequel to perhaps his best-known book, 'Brooklyn.' What was it like to take up the story again two decades later? He tells us in this interview with America.

Loyalist paramilitaries played a central role in organizing the unrest in Belfast, but it was a surprise on both sides of the northern Irish border when they were joined by self-proclaimed “Irish patriots” from the Republic of Ireland.