In 2014 Donal Ryan published a novel in the U.S. called “The Spinning Heart” about a rural Irish town after the 2008 financial collapse. It was narrated by a chorus of voices, one per chapter, and at ...

Now is not necessarily a time in the world where it’s easy to find internal or external peace. Things seem to be figuratively — or literally — on fire everywhere you look. It can almost feel wrong not ...

Donal Ryan has set his novels chiefly in and around his native Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, filling them with characters whose stories become the background of subsequent books. “Heart, Be at ...