Julio Cortázar’s happy chaos

Kevin Barry celebrates the selected stories of a writer who continues to bamboozle and enthrall readers.

Kevin Barry Essay 14th October 2020

Some Notes on Des Hogan’s Story ‘Kennedy’

In Des Hogan's work, Ireland is exhibited as precisely what it is: a gaudy, teetering, beautiful, dangerous, hysterical, haunted, failing country.

Kevin Barry Essay 14th November 2017

There Are Little Kingdoms

🔒 Some Notes on Names and Deeds

Kevin Barry Issue 33, Volume 2: Spring 2016 – In The Wake Of The Rising

🔒 monologue for cabman

Kevin Barry Fiction Issue 31, Volume 2: Summer 2015 (The London Issue)

🔒 Sligo Occult: On Dermot Healy’s Radical Style

Kevin Barry Essay Issue 29, Volume 2: Winter 2014

Some Notes From Winter

Kevin Barry Essay 22nd December 2011

🔒 New York Perceived

Kevin Barry Essay Issue 20, Volume 2: Winter 2011 (The New York Issue)

Last Days of the Buffalo

Kevin Barry 1st November 2006

🔒 Party At Helen’s

Kevin Barry Fiction Issue 4, Volume 2: Summer 2006

🔒 Penguins

Kevin Barry Fiction Issue 1, Volume 2: Summer 2005

Kevin Barry

Kevin Barry is the author of six books, most recently the story collection That Old Country Music. He also writes plays and screenplays, and is co-editor and publisher of the annual arts anthology Winter Papers. He lives in County Sligo.