Land,” Maggie O’Farrell’s 10th novel, burrows into her family’s past, and into the history of their patch of Ireland, with ...

O’Farrell’s 2020 novel ‘Hamnet’ was adapted into an award-winning film last year. She co-wrote the screenplay. It’s about the ...

I begin with Hardy because I often think of him when I read Maggie O’ Farrell’s novels. She arguably bestows more mercy upon ...

The novel opens with Tomás and his 10-year-old son, Liam, surveying an unnamed peninsula on “the westernmost scrap of Europe.

This is the one book I’m recommending to everyone this summer - Set in the aftermath of the Great Famine, Maggie O’Farrell’s ...

With all that's required to reach "dream destinations" these days, another option is to walk to your local public library ...

In the years before the Civil War, waves of immigrants arrived from Europe. Many of the more established St. Louisans didn't ...

Statistics show that young, single Irish women were the largest group to immigrate to the U.S. in the late 19th and early ...

Ireland in 1860 by Bartholomew Colles Watkins. Bartholomew Colles Watkins/Wikimedia Maggie O’Farrell’s exquisite new novel, ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with "Hamnet" author Maggie O'Farrell, whose new novel, "Land," draws on her own family's history with Ireland's Great Famine.

Cartography serves as both narrative engine and theme in “Land,” by the Northern Irish novelist Maggie O’Farrell. A central ...

Whiskey is a massive category. It encompasses multiple styles, and variances cross countries, regions, mashbills, and ...