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 ...

Kevin Barry didn’t have to look far afield to create the male lead of his new novel, “The Heart in Winter.” Tom, an Irish immigrant in 1890s Butte, Mont., is a “29-year-old disaster of a man. A kind ...

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, ...

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 ...