The author of “The Second Coming” and “City on Fire” selects recommendations from the great American writer’s sprawling body of work. From the daily newsletter: Reading about the end of ...

The Pornographer, by John McGahern. New York Review Books. 272 pages. $17.95. If you were asked to name the finest Irish writer of the second half of the twentieth century, a strong case could be made ...

Now we have Garrett Carr’s first novel, The Boy from the Sea, which is set in Killybegs, Ireland’s big fishing port.

John Tusa, former director of London’s Barbican Arts Centre, put it like this: “The arts matter because they embrace, express and define the soul of a civilisation. A nation without arts would ...

The author's prose is outstanding for its visual impact, often featuring stone or light, leading to speculation on the relation between the physical world and the characters’ inner lives ...

Omnibus of the last five of ten episodes. Written and abridged by John McGahern. Read by Lloyd Hutchinson.

Travelling anywhere on the roads shows just how extreme the wind was, with fallen/broken trees everywhere and buildings damaged.

I realised that he had no interest in music as he was tone deaf. But most of all, he had no interest in Dublin. The Letters of John McGahern edited by Frank Shovlin. Despite the autobiographical ...

(This was almost a badge of honor at the time for Irish writers. Brendan Behan’s Borstal Boy was banned in 1958, Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls in 1960 and John McGahern’s The Dark in 1965, joining ...