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 ...

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 ...