Colm Tóibín’s new book, The Magician, deals with the life of Thomas Mann. Tóibín finished the book before lockdown but he went back to it in that period and amended it and edited it. The subject matter has added to the natural anxiety which Tóibín feels as he releases a novel. He is not writing about Ireland, he says, or Wexford. Or Enniscorthy. He is dealing with one of the great German writers from a family that have intrigued many for a long time. But the pandemic too has increased that anxiety. Tóibín came into the The Currency studio to…

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