Newfoundland, 1919. Aviators Jack Alcock and Teddy Brown conceived an epoch-making adventure - to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight. Dublin, 1845....

1970s, New York, a time of rapid change, everything moves, flies, rushes. But for a moment the confusion and chaos of the metropolis freezes: a man walks on ...

Rudolf Nureyev is the most famous dancer in the history of ballet. Nureyev revolutionized ballet, escaped from the USSR, became a glamorous icon, became famo...

In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the belovedBest American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, "The Model T gave way to the ...

In his bittersweet fourth novel, McCann chronicles the imperiled world of the Slovakian Roma (Gypsies, to their enemies) from World War II through the est...

In his fourth book, Colum McCann turns to the "troubles" in Northern Ireland and reveals the reverberations of political tragedy in the most intimate live...

Colum McCann demonstrates once again why he is one of the most acclaimed and essential authors of his generation with a soaring novel that spans continent...

At the turn of the century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country. A sandhog, he burrows beneath the East Riv...

With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he move...

The short fiction of Colum McCann documents a dizzying cast of characters in exile, loss, love, and displacement. There is the worn boxing champion who st...

In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, ...