In his cheerfully chilly house in a small Irish village in County Sligo, Kevin Barry is explaining why his latest novel took so long to write. Samuel Beckett is glaring at us from a large framed ...

Steal money, torch a hotel and ride off into the sunset with another man’s wife. The things we do for love. The wayward hero of the brilliant Irish writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in the United ...

Irish novelist Kevin Barry has written a classic Western with Irish brogue in his new book, "The Heart in Winter." ...

Even after doing research in Montana, a draft of the book that became “The Heart in Winter” was “dead on the page,” he says. Back in Ireland, the runaway lovers now at its center “suddenly appeared to ...

In the woods near his home in Ireland, author Kevin Barry found the answer to something that had nagged him for more than 20 years. “One day, late in the pandemic, I was walking in the mountains in ...

Kevin Barry’s new novel follows a fugitive couple from Butte, Mont., in the late 19th century. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

Sometimes, if you're a lover of literary fiction, you read something that speaks to you so personally and at the same time is so beautifully illuminating of the human condition that you feel uplifted.

TOM ROURKE is a dope fiend with one foot already in the grave. He fancies himself a poet; the rest of Butte, Montana, fancies him a “mad little Irish motherfucker”. When he meets Polly Gillespie, ...

This week’s story, “The Pub with No Beer,” is set in a pub, in the West of Ireland, that’s been shuttered by the pandemic. Was this a story that you started writing under lockdown? We were coming out ...

In the woods near his home in Ireland, author Kevin Barry found the answer to something that had nagged him for more than 20 years. “One day, late in the pandemic, I was walking in the mountains in ...