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?Homosexual men keeping the big secret from their wives seems to be the current hot topic in Irish writing. Last year, we had Eugene O’Brien’s play Heaven making a big impact at the Dublin Theatre Festival; Paul Murray’s Booker-longlisted novel The Bee Sting goes down this road also. And here we have Amanda Brunker building a cheeky sex comedy on the back of a cheating gay husband. It premiered in 2022 at the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, and is here revived for a Viking run.

This novel about an Irish family is a tapestry of interwoven stories with shifting perspectives that draw the reader into the character’s deepest secrets

To paraphrase Tolstoy's famous sentence: Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, one member a punching bag for frustrations and grievances. In Paul Murray's layered, beguiling "The Bee Sting," 12-year-old PJ Barnes is that bag, absorbing emotional blows from his parents and older sister as th

Irish novelist Paul Murray is the author of "An Evening of Long Goodbyes" and "Skippy Dies," a 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. His new…

The Irish novelist recommends works from Daniel Clowes, Marcel Proust and more.

If youve noticed more bees and wasps out, experts say that its the time of year when theyre preparing for winter.

Jenny Lee puts performers and artists on the spot about what really matters to them. This week, Dublin writer Eithne Shortall

FAIRFIELD — Martina LeClerc had been cleaning houses for a living when her boyfriend at the time told her she should be selling her own pizza.

The protagonists of Paul Murray’s perspective-shifting novel struggle to conceal their unruly attachments beneath a conventional surface.

The glass-walled pizza truck is parked often on Portland's Eastern Promenade, serving up tasty and quick brick-oven pies.