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Colm Tóibín's preoccupation with blood ties is evident in the titles of his fiction ("Mothers and Sons," "The Empty Family") and literary criticism (he called a 2012 volume of essays "New Ways to Kill Your Mother"). In his latest work of nonfiction, "Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know," the Irish writer turns to paternal perplexities - the devotion, rebellion and dependent estrangement that Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats and James Joyce experienced with their fathers.