An extract from "The Writing Irish of New York," a collection of essays featuring work by Colum McCann, Billy Collins, Luanne Rice, Malachy McCourt, and many more. Many aspiring writers have uprooted ...

A chorus of voices breathe new life into the story of Rudolf Nureyev, one of ballet's greatest performers, in this vibrant, imaginative patchwork of a novel by Irish expatriate McCann (This Side of ...

Learn more about Colum McCann's Story Swap project. When Colum McCann came to the U.S. from Ireland in the early 1980s, he set out on a cross-country bicycle trip to get to know his new country and ...

Colum McCann first won fans around the world with his bestselling novel Let The Great World Spin. The Irish author is now releasing a new collection of short fiction — a novella and three stories — ...

On an August morning in 1974, a man named Philippe Petit steps off of the roof of the World Trade Center’s South Tower and onto a tightrope. On the ground, New Yorkers look up in disbelief as the man ...

Editor's Note: Our reviewer John Cusatis asked author Colum McCann about his new novel, "Apeirogon." How did you settle on the title for your new novel? An apeirogon is a shape with a countably ...

In his new novel, “Twist,” the National Book Award-winning Irish writer Colum McCann tells the story of a journalist deep at sea in more ways than one: A man adrift, he accepts a magazine assignment ...

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How lost are we without our devices? Or putting it more simply, as novelist Colum McCann might: just how isolated are we? His new novel "Twist" asks big questions through a story of characters ...

Outlander: Blood of My Blood Episode 3 “School of the Moon” focuses primarily on the succession crisis plaguing Clan MacKenzie. The family’s formidable patriarch, Red Jacob (Peter Mullan), died ...

Colum McCann’s sweeping new novel has a simple origin. “I had my heart blown open,” he explains in his soft Irish brogue, alluding to a poem by his countryman Seamus Heaney: “As big soft buffetings ...