What links The Batman to High Fidelity and The Satanic Verses?
From Robert Pattinson to an indie record store and a New York super publisher, we steer the Batmobile down the rabbit hole
February 2016
The week in books
A new chapter in cinema: why books are big at the 2016 Oscars
Film adaptations of Brooklyn, The Martian, The Revenant and Room are among the best picture nominees at this year’s Academy Awards as Hollywood shows its bookish side
November 2015
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Brooklyn review – Saoirse Ronan shines in a heartfelt and absorbing adaptation
A tremendous lead performance lifts Nick Hornby’s screen translation of Colm Tóibin’s novel out of sentimental period nostalgia into an intelligent drama
Film talk
Saoirse Ronan and John Crowley: 'Emigration is a potent part of the Irish psyche' – video interview
Saoirse Ronan, who stars in the film adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s Booker longlisted book about a young Irish girl’s emigration to New York in the 1950s, talks to Benjamin Lee
Observer New Review Q&A
Nick Hornby: ‘I couldn’t write Fever Pitch now. One of the things that made it was its lack of perspective’
The acclaimed author on writing for film, fate versus chance, and losing the obsessive side of his nature
October 2015
Colm Tóibín on filming his novel Brooklyn: 'Everyone in my home town wanted to be an extra'
John Crowley’s new film gives Enniscorthy more glamour, but also perfectly captures the place Tóibín grew up in
July 2015
Brooklyn stars a torn Saoirse Ronan as an Irish immigrant in 1950s America
Watch the trailer for John Crowley’s drama – which drew rave reviews at this year’s Sundance film festival – based on the Colm Tóibín novel
October 2014
Nora Webster review – Colm Tóibín’s powerful study of widowhood
Personal grief plays out against a backdrop of political turmoil in Colm Tóibín’s love letter to an Ireland in flux, writes Robert McCrum
September 2010
Book club
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Week four: readers' responses
Books blog
Guardian book club: Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
This is a story of a very ordinary sort of life, but Tóibín manages to make its undramatic incidents and people enormously involving
Book club
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Week three: Colm Tóibín on the influences that shaped his novel Brooklyn
August 2010
Book club
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Book club
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
January 2010
Tóibín runaway favourite for Costa book of the year
Extract from Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín (Viking)
May 2009
The country girl
Review: Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín's quiet intensity brings the past to life, says Christopher Tayler
April 2009
You can take the man out of Ireland...
The acclaimed writer Colm Tóibín has long made exile a central theme of his work and his outstanding new novel, the slyly comic Brooklyn, is no exception. He talks to Robert McCrum
March 2009
Debut novelist cedes Brooklyn to Colm Tóibín
Joanna Smith Rakoff forced to rename her debut after discovering Colm Tóibín had picked her first choice - Brooklyn - as the title of his sixth novel
