Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author Kevin Barry - Patrick Bolger In his cheerfully chilly house in a small Irish village in County Sligo, Kevin Barry is ...

Irish novelist Kevin Barry has written a classic Western with Irish brogue in his new book, "The Heart in Winter." When it comes to staying informed in Minnesota, our newsletters overdeliver. Sign-up ...

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 ...

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.

I am a language guy. Not every writer is -- the bestseller lists are rife with happy souls free to employ whatever word occurs. But I stand with Flaubert, for whom the synonym was mythic as the ...

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 ...