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 ...

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” ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

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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 ...

John Banville and Cicero, his tour guide for "Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir." (Courtesy of Paul Joyce/Knopf) The curiosity that we have about the lives of artists knows few bounds. That curiosity seems ...

Irish writer John Banville slips into Raymond Chandler’s voice for a new crime novel starring one of the great characters in American fiction: private detective Philip Marlowe. 1950’s Los Angeles, the ...

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 ...

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 ...