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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...