In the National Book Award winner’s novel Twist (Random House, Mar.), a journalist in search of a story joins the crew of a cable repair ship. How did you choose the setting? I’ve been interested in ...

NEW YORK — “I’m a bit of a magpie,” Colum McCann said, sheepishly gesturing around his office at Hunter College. He has taught creative writing there for 13 years, and in that time has appointed his ...

Marcia Franklin talks with author Colum McCann at the 2025 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. Host Marcia Franklin talks with author Colum McCann about his books since their last conversation in 2011, ...

May 14—Colum McCann cracks open the rib cage of Palestinian-Israeli violence in his excruciating novel "Apeirogon." Winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Fiction, the Irish American author is the ...

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 ...

In a week in which the security of internet communications is in the spotlight, a new novel captures the murky world of undersea internet cables: essential, indispensable and incredibly vulnerable.