Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Banville's new novel is "Snow." (Douglas Banville / Hanover Square Press) If you’ve ever watched someone build a house of ...

“The appeal of the conventional crime novel,” the Irish writer John Banville once suggested, “is the sense of completion it offers.” Unlike life, bounded by the unremembered and—strictly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Banville: ‘I don’t read praise. I don’t read anything about myself at all’ (Mirco ...

Is it a double standard to be less shocked by an affair between a 15-year-old boy and his best friend’s mother as between an underage girl and an adult man? Let’s face it, “Summer of ‘42” and “Lolita” ...

MADRID — It’s the eyes peering from the canvases that get him, their gaze piercing the boundary between art and life. That’s why acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville prefers to visit Spain’s Prado ...

Britain's top literary honor, the Man Booker Prize, has been awarded to Irish author John Banville's 14th novel, The Sea. He beat high-profile competition including Julian Barnes, Kazuo Ishiguro and ...

When John Banville was a teen-ager, he wanted to be a painter. Banville was born and raised in Wexford, Ireland, and on weekends his mother would take him into Dublin to go to Combridges, a bookstore ...

“Snow” would normally have been published under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, but Banville says he doesn’t need that “rascal” anymore. By Charles McGrath The Irish novelist John Banville is a famous ...

First, however, it’s useful to outline the differences between the two genres. Works of literary impersonation, like Banville’s, are often given a seal of approval by the original author’s estate. The ...

Author John Banville spoke to chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown about his new Philip Marlowe crime fiction novel “The Black-Eyed Blonde.” Author John Banville has been reading Raymond Chandler ...