The Romani poet, Zoli, is the latest heroine in Colum McCann's ongoing quest to understand the function of art. Gypsy women are not supposed to be taught to read and write. What's more, because Zoli's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 its stories. He's spent the years since telling those ...

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 ...

Colum McCann's Narrative 4 organization is bringing the power of story to students in a time of division. The project helps young people around the world share their stories and bridge divides in ...