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.
The implementation of and codification of legislation promoting politically motivated and otherwise agenda-oriented book bans is growing at a…
“The sky has become a bruised pink-blue-purple. It is late June in Oulu in northern Finland, and Midsummer…
“A highlight of the month of December for my sisters and me, growing up in New York City in the…
