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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Kevin Barry, the Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies for this semester, is one of Ireland’s more highly regarded fiction writers to emerge this century. The author of two novels, Beatlebone and ...

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 ...