Tell us a bit about Old God. Old God is the character from the show Old God, an immortal being so old they have forgotten their own name. A bit cracked, perhaps, he greets the audience and then ...

In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.

Were it almost any author but Sebastian Barry, the slow unwinding of the first 115 pages of this 260-page novel might be enough to dissuade a reader from plugging on. Yes, Barry writes a ...