Kevin Power

Author and academic Kevin Power assesses the career of the New Yorker, whose fiction was a game of hide and seek

Novel set in Ballina unfolds around characters who are abandoned, bereaved and trapped by circumstance

Herzog’s life and films dwell in the haunted house of the Third Reich

A substantial anthology of Mantel’s non-fiction work, one that would appeal to anyone with an interest in lucid thought

Weighing in at a slender 179 pages, McCormack’s quarry is the elusive stuff of consciousness itself

There is no clumsy expository dialogue in this gripping, moving story set in an ‘altered America’ of 1922

Can you stay glued to a novel if its protagonist is not a human being but a house?

Salman Rushdie, Hilary Mantel, John Banville and Roddy Doyle might wince at some of the judgments contained within

Kevin Power: I catch myself singing ‘Yes, yes, bedtime’s good for you’. All day. All week

Author has followed her essays Notes to Self with a contemporary Dublin Mrs Dalloway

‘You have a problem,’ my wife told me during lockdown. And she’s absolutely right

Douglas Stuart’s novel about gay teenager and tenement life in 1990s is let down by language

Kevin Power: Embracing the banal on canal bank walks kept me sane during lockdown

Book review: Giles Foden is a novelist for whom history is a real presence

I don’t want him to ‘be a man’. I want him to be something else – but what?