Dr. Kevin Power

• Kevin Power, Morbid Symptoms: Norman Mailer's Barbary Shore, The Mailer Review, 11, (1), 2017, p150 - 177Journal Article, 2017
• Kevin Power, Cures for Cancer: Norman Mailer's Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters), The Mailer Review, 9, (1), 2015, p210 - 226Journal Article, 2015
• Kevin Power, The Underground Frontier: Norman Mailer's An American Dream, Irish Journal of American Studies, (8), 2019Journal Article, 2019
• Kevin Power, 'Audiences are composed of sentimental necrophiles': Notes on Norman Mailer's The Deer Park: A Play, The Mailer Review , 14, (1), 2021, p94 - 116Journal Article, 2021
• Kevin Power, Babycinos at the End of the World: Cormac McCarthy and Parenthood, The Cormac McCarthy Journal, 21, (1), 2023, p2 - 14Journal Article, 2023

• Kevin Power, Bad Day in Blackrock, Dublin/London, Lilliput/Simon & Schuster UK, 2008, 238ppBook
• Kevin Power, 'A Theft', Banshee: A Literary Journal, 2018, 2 - 27Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'The Nihilists', Reading the Future: New Writing from Ireland, Arlen House, 2018, 256 - 259Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'In the Call Centre', The Dublin Review 70 (Spring 2018), 2018, 27 - 46Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'Team Amis', The Dublin Review of Books 94 (November 2017), 2017, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'Channeling God', The Dublin Review of Books 100 (May 2018), 2018, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'The American Girl', Hennessy Book of New Irish Writing 2005-2015, 2015, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'The Fear Next Time', Guts: The Magazine of Confessional Writing 3 (May 2016), 2016, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'Hating Jonathan Franzen', The Dublin Review of Books 108 (February 2019), 2019, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'My First Novels', The Danger and the Glory: Irish Writers on Writing, 2019, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'An Unlikely Meeting of Minds: An Interview with Dermot Bolger', The Sunday Business Post, 2018, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'Thomas M. Disch Versus the Catholic Church: The Cardinal Detoxes', Los Angeles Review of Books, 2017, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, Down & Out in the Deep South, Review of Lake Success, by Gary Shteyngart , Literary Review, (468 ), 2018Review
• Kevin Power, 'Anne Enright in Conversation', Words Ireland, 2018, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'DeLillo, Lethem, and the Seductive Sentence', The Millions, 2017, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, Jungle Fever, Review of Madness is Better Than Defeat, by Ned Beauman , Literary Review, (457), 2017Review
• Kevin Power, 'Rugby brawl was more than 'private school brats' behaving badly', The Irish Times 3rd February 2018, 2018, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'A Mistake', Circle & Square, 2015, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, ''While everybody else is going out playing football ... here you are, gnawing away at your insides': An Interview with Patrick McCabe', The Sunday Business Post, 2018, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'Triumph of the Will', The Dublin Review of Books 115 (October 2019), 2019, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, Review of Adam Roberts: Critical Essays, Eds. Christos & McFarlane. , Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 48.1, (132), 2019, p113-6Review
• Kevin Power, '"Clive James (1939-2019)"', Dublin Review of Books 116, 2019, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, '"What Goes Up" (Review of Low by Jeet Thayil)', Literary Review Issue 483 (February 2020), 2020, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, '"Who Will Save Us?"', Dublin Review of Books 121, 2020, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, '"On Becoming an Americanist"', Irish Journal of American Studies Special Issue , 2020, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, '"Talk About a Revolution"', Dublin Review of Books 123 June 2020, 2020, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, '"Apocalypse No"', Dublin Review of Books 123 June 2020, 2020, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, '"Ottessa Moshfegh's Death in Her Hands is a New Kind of Murder Mystery." ', The New Yorker , 2020, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'Review of M. John Harrison: Critical Essays, eds. Williams & Bould.', Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 136, 49.2 (Summer 2020), 2020, 116 - 119Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, '"Then Again."', Dublin Review of Books 125 (September 2020), 2020, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, '"A Laugh a Month." ', Literary Review Issue 488 (July 2020) , 2020, 64 - 65Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, '"Mini masterpieces set off depth-charge of emotion." Review of That Old Country Music: Stories by Kevin Barry. ', Ireland, Irish Independent, 17th October , 2020, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'Seigneur Moments', Ireland, The Dublin Review of Books Issue 127 (November 2020). , 2020, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, '"Fevered Covid tales convey a strange feeling of reassurance." Review of The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic. ', Ireland, Irish Independent, 28th November, 2020, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'Political puritans who condemn Banville are missing the point.', Ireland, Irish Independent, 5th December, 2020, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'The Cat Laughs', Ireland, The Dublin Review of Books Issue 129 (January 2021), 2021, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'What is QAnon? Explaining the conspiracy cult that sees Trump as a messianic genius', Ireland, Irish Independent, 16th January , 2021, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'Brought to book: what it takes to write a novel', Ireland, Business Post, 17th January, 2021, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'Conspiracies, secrets and lies in a brilliant debut that explores the merging of online and IRL experiences.', UK, The Guardian, 6th February, 2021, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel', Ireland, The Stinging Fly , 2021, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'Kazuo Ishiguro stays true to his vision in story told in glimpses', Ireland, Irish Independent, 27th February, 2021, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'Dispatches from the digital hellscape. Review of The Disconnect: A Personal History of the Internet by Roisin Kiberd. ', Ireland, The Irish Times, 6th March, 2021, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, '"Fleeting lives caught in passing." Review of We Are Not in the World by Conor O'Callaghan. ', Ireland, Business Post, 28th February, 2021, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, White City, London, Scribner UK, 2021, 448ppBook
• Kevin Power, After Things Fell Apart: America in the Age of Apocalypse, The Nora Niland Lecture, Yeats Day 2020, Online (Ireland), 12th June, 2020Conference Paper
• Kevin Power, The Tree of Liberty and the Blood of Patriots: Gore Vidal, Timothy McVeigh, and the Culture Wars. Conference Keynote. , Common Ground 2019: Identifying Value(s) in Literature, Culture, and Society., Queen's University, Belfast, 20th June , 2019Conference Paper
• Kevin Power, "The most sacred thing I do is care and provide for my workers, my family": Antinomies of The Office., Confidence-Men and Hucksters, Corruption and Governance in the US: Irish Association for American Studies (IAAS) Annual Conference. , University College Cork, 12th April , 2019Conference Paper
• Kevin Power, Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History, Society, 58, (2), 2021Review
• Kevin Power, '"Beyond a Joke." ', Ireland, Dublin Review of Books 134 (June 2021), 2021, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, '"'The first step was to admit that I knew nothing.'', Irish Times, 28th April 2021, 2021, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, "Can't Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World by Adam Curtis." , The Stinging Fly, 15th April 2021, 2021Review Article
• Kevin Power, '"The epic drama of fatherhood." ', The Sunday Independent, 20th June 2021, 2021, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, '"Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan."', The Stinging Fly, 23rd June 2021, 2021, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, "A 'peacock stylist' who saw our true colours.", Review of A Vision of the World: Selected Stories, by John Cheever , The Sunday Independent, 6th June 2021, 2021Review
• Kevin Power, The Written World: Essays & Reviews, 1st, Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 2022, 272ppppBook
• Kevin Power, '"I don't want my son, as he grows up, to silence his finer feelings." ', Irish Times, Irish Times, 10th July 2021, 2021, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, Rooney lowers the temperature in novel of big ideas., Review of Beautiful World Where Are You, by Sally Rooney , Irish Independent, 4th September 2021, 2021Review
• Kevin Power, 'The day the earth stood still: remembering September 11', The Business Post, 5th September 2021, 2021, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, The dogs of war, Review of Freight Dogs, by Giles Foden , Irish Times, 11th September 2021, 2021Review
• Kevin Power, Colm Toibin richly restores our understanding of a great gay writer, Review of The Magician, by Colm Toibin , Sunday Independent, 19th September, 2021Review
• Kevin Power, Across 125th Street, Review of Harlem Shuffle, by Colson Whitehead , Literary Review, (501 (October)), 2021Review
• Kevin Power, Masterful page-turner about how we handle pain, Review of Crossroads, by Jonathan Franzen , Irish Independent, 2nd October, 2021Review
• Kevin Power, 'Normal Sheeple by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly (Paul Howard)', The Stinging Fly, 30th October, 2021, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'Tell Us a Story', Dublin Review of Books Issue 139, 2021, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, An odyssey of fine diplomacy, Review of Ulysses: A Reader's Odyssey, by Daniel Mulhall , The Sunday Times, 13th February, 2022Review
• Kevin Power, Island of dreams, Review of The Colony, by Audrey Magee , The Guardian, 6th February, 2022Review
• Kevin Power, Barrett finds new territory outside Kevin Barry country, Review of Homesickness: Stories, by Colin Barrett , Irish Independent, 12th March, 2022Review
• Kevin Power, The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand, Review of The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, by Louis Menand , Society, 59, (1), 2022, p75-78Review
• Kevin Power, 'Cancelling Mailer', Dublin Review of Books Issue 143, 2022, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'How Covid made me embrace the banal on canal bank walks', Irish Times, 13th April, 2022, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, Across the divide: A masterful novel of love in the Troubles, Review of Trespasses, by Louise Kennedy , The Guardian, 16th April, 2022Review
• Kevin Power, Shuggie Redux: pathos punctured by clichés, Review of Young Mungo, by Douglas Stuart , Irish Times, 16th April, 2022Review
• Kevin Power, 'Hi, My name is Kevin and I can't stop buying books', Irish Times, 27th April , 2022, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, '43 Notes About a Film', Tolka Issue 3, 2022, - 11-33Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, A singular day in Dublin, Review of Ruth & Pen, by Emilie PIne , Irish Times, 7th May, 2022Review
• Kevin Power, 'The Difficulty of Writing at All; Or, How One Becomes What One Is: Some Disconnected Thoughts about Growth.', Emerging Perspectives 4.1, 2013, 3 - 16Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'Everybody Speaks: Utopia and Polyphony in Roddy Doyle's The Commitments', UCD Scholarcast, April 2015, 2015, -Broadcast
• Kevin Power, 'The Dublin Review Podcast Episode 12', The Dublin Review , 2022, -Broadcast
• Kevin Power, 'How Norman Mailer Helped Me Deliver', The Sunday Business Post, 1st August, 2010, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'The Dead Hotel', These Are Our Lives, ed. Declan Meade, Stinging Fly Press, 2006, 91 - 101Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'The Old Regime', New Irish Short Stories, ed. Joseph O'Connor, 2011, 314 - 339Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, Researching the Historical Novel with Nuala O'Connor & Kevin Power., TCD English One Dublin One Book, Online (Ireland), 19th April , 2022Oral Presentation
• Kevin Power, Adam Mars-Jones in Conversation with Kevin Power, Briena Staunton Fellow Event, The Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute, 20th March, 2019Oral Presentation
• Kevin Power, Imagining the Worst: Fiction & True Crime, TCD English Evening Lectures 2021, Online (Ireland), 13th April, 2021Oral Presentation
• Kevin Power, Lauren Oyler, Niamh Campbell, Conversations with the Contemporary: Imagining the Contemporary, Online (Ireland), 23rd March, 2021, UCD EnglishInvited Talk
• Kevin Power, Caoilinn Hughes in Conversation with Kevin Power, TCD English/Arts Council Writer Fellow Event 2021, Online (Ireland), 22nd April , 2021Oral Presentation
• Kevin Power, John Banville, Claire Hennessy, John Banville & Kevin Power, interviewed by Claire Hennessy., Glor Theatre, Ennis, Co. Clare, 5th March, 2022, Ennis Book Club FestivalInvited Talk
• Kevin Power, Colm Toibin , Pure Magic: Colm Toibin in Conversation with Kevin Power, Red Line Book Festival, Civic Theatre, Tallaght, 17th October, 2021Oral Presentation
• Kevin Power, 'WIlderness Gothic', (Francis McManus Award Shortlisted Stories), RTE Radio 1, 2008, -Broadcast
• Kevin Power, 'Rogue Writer: An Interview with Jonathan Franzen', The Sunday Business Post, November 8th, 2015, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'Temporary Arrangement: An Interview with Sebastian Barry', The Sunday Business Post, March 30th, 2014, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, Mark McGurl, Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon, Society, 60, (1), 2023, p149 - 155Review Article
• Kevin Power, '"The Literary Festival"', The Irish Times, 2024, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, '"Catastrophe"', Dublin Tales, Oxford University Press, 2023, 277 - 292Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, "In a critical mood", Review of Affinities, by Brian Dillon , The irish Times, 2023Review
• Kevin Power, "A spectacular reckoning with violated innocence.", Review of Old God's Time, by Sebastian Barry , Irish Independent, 2023Review
• Kevin Power, "Hippies v. billionaires.", Review of Birnam Wood, by Eleanor Catton , The Guardian, 2023Review
• Kevin Power, "Coming of age meets the age of austerity in confessional debut.", Review of Close to Home, by Michael Magee , Irish Independent, 2023Review
• Kevin Power, "Lyrical study of troubled youth.", Review of Shy, by Max Porter , The Guardian, 2023Review
• Kevin Power, "Crammed with compelling but elusive ideas.", Review of Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction, by Mary McGlynn , The Irish Times, 2023Review
• Kevin Power, Ideal Detachments, The New York Review of Books, LXX, (10), 2023, p11 - 12Review Article
• Kevin Power, '"Martin Amis (1949-2023): A `sturdy pillar of high achievement", a master turner of phrases."', The Irish Times, 2023, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, 'Making Us Good', The Dublin Review of Books, 2023, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, '"Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023): a reckoning with the Age of Aftermath."', The Irish Times, 2023, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, '"Elizabeth Gilbert"s Russian book reversal proves the mob has got inside writers" heads."', Irish Independent, 2023, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, "America, the fool"s paradise.", Review of Be Mine, by Richard Ford , The Guardian, 2023Review
• Kevin Power, "A Matter of Record.", Review of Kairos, by Jenny Erpenbeck , Literary Review, 520, 2023Review
• Kevin Power, "A critical machete wielded mercilessly.", Review of Retroland: A Reader"s Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction, by Peter Kemp , The Irish Times, 2023Review
• Kevin Power, "The age of print is over as we become serfs on the web.", Review of The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and its Lessons for the Age of the Internet, by Jeff Jarvis , Irish Independent, 2023Review
• Kevin Power, '"Oppenheimer failed to imagine the world he was creating. These books show it in all its horror."', Irish Independent, 2023, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, "Zadie Smith finally catches up with her reputation as a novelist.", Review of The Fraud, by Zadie Smith , Irish Independent, 2023Review
• Kevin Power, "All about the house.", Review of North Woods, by Daniel Mason , The Irish Times, 2023Review
• Kevin Power, "Gripping in its reality.", Review of Cahokia Jazz, by Francis Spufford , The Irish Times, 2023Review
• Kevin Power, "From an unhappy childhood to a place in the stars.", Review of Making It So: A Memoir, by Patrick Stewart , Irish Independent, 2023Review
• Kevin Power, "Where the self is the first object of suspicion.", Review of This Plague of Souls, by Mike McCormack , The Irish Times, 2023Review
• Kevin Power, "A sublime writer who brought her genius to Grub Street.", Review of A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing, by Hilary Mantel , The Irish Times, 2023Review
• Kevin Power, '"Notes on Newspaper Book Reviewing."', Irish Writers Handbook 2024, Books Ireland, 2023, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, '"The Layers Are Us."', Dublin Exchange: Reflections from a City in Flux, Story, Building, 2023, 3 - 7Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, "Taking everything to extremes.", Review of Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir, by Werner Herzog , The Irish Times, 2024Review
• Kevin Power, "Small-town Irish gangsterdom.", Review of WIld Houses, by Colin Barrett , The Irish Times, 2024Review
• Kevin Power, "Covid collection says little for the health of North American fiction.", Review of Fourteen Days, by Margaret Atwood & Douglas Preston , Irish Independent, 2024Review
• Kevin Power, "End of the affair.", Review of What Will Survive of Us, by Howard Jacobson , The Guardian, 2024Review
• Kevin Power, "Acid comedy of precarity.", Review of Help Wanted, by Adelle Waldman , The Guardian, 2024Review
• Kevin Power, "The Future of Decline: Anglo-American Culture at its Limits by Jed Esty, Review of The Future of Decline: Anglo-American Culture at its Limits, by Jed Esty , Society, 61, (3), 2024Review
• Kevin Power, "Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age by Roberta Katz et.al.", Review of Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age, by Roberta Katz et al , Society, 61, (3), 2024Review
• Kevin Power, "Shriver"s darkened vision is a triumph of the wilful.", Review of Mania, by Lionel Shriver , Irish Independent, 2024Review
• Kevin Power, '"John Barth (1930-2024)."', The Dublin Review of Books, 2024, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, "Nobody writes about the reality of parenthood better than Lucy Caldwell.", Review of Openings: Thirteen Stories, by Lucy Caldwell , Irish Independent, 2024Review
• Kevin Power, '"Paul Auster (1947-2024): a life of hiding and seeking."', The Irish Times, 2024, -Fiction and creative prose
• Kevin Power, "The Devouring Mind.", The Dublin Review of Books, Summer 2024, (155), 2024Review Article
• Kevin Power, "The Kitsch Abyss.", The New York Review of Books, LXXI, (12), 2024, p44 - 46Review Article, URL
• Kevin Power, '"Parental pursuits at Centre Parcs."', The Irish Times, 2024, -Fiction and creative prose, URL
• Kevin Power, "New Currents in Irish Literature.", 2024, -Miscellaneous, URL
• Kevin Power, "What Kamala Harris, Donald Trump and JD Vance's favourite books say about them.", 2024, -Miscellaneous
• Kevin Power, "Attempted Rescues: Notes on Writing.", Bray Literary Festival, Bray, Co. Wicklow, 1st October, 2022Invited Talk
• Kevin Power, "The Critic as Artist (With Apologies to Oscar Wilde).", Carlow-PIttsburgh MFA Invited Talk, Trinity College Dublin, 13th June, 2023Invited Talk
• Kevin Power, '"The Art of Reading Podcast: Kevin Power, White City."', Laureate for Irish Fiction Public Event, Ballinasloe Library, Co. Galway, 2023, -Broadcast, URL
• Kevin Power, '"The Stinging Fly Podcast: Kevin Power Reads Eimear Ryan."', The Stinging Fly, 2024, -Broadcast, URL
• Kevin Power, "New Irish Fiction: A Symposium." Moderator at panel featuring Nicole Flattery, Colin Barrett, and Belinda McKeon., New Irish Fiction, Pulitzer Hall, Columbia University, NY, 25th March, 2023Conference Paper
• Kevin Power, The Stinging Fly Book Reviewing Workshop with Kevin Power., Online via Zoom, 10th February, 2024, The Stinging FlyInvited Talk
• Kevin Power, '"Breaking dad: a family trip to the Portuguese Riviera."', The Irish Times, 2024, -Fiction and creative prose

Other Humanities, Languages and literature, Performing arts,

• Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2009
• Arts Council Literature Bursary Award 2016
• Arts Council Literature Bursary Award 2012
• Clinton Institute for American Studies PhD Scholarship 2004 2004-6
• UCD School of English & Drama Doctoral Fellowship 2006-7
• Arts Council Literature Bursary Award 2016
• Hennessy XO Award for Emerging Fiction 2009

• Member of Editorial Board, Society (Springer Nature) Present
• Member of Irish Association for American Studies Present
• Member of the Norman Mailer Society Present

• Member of Editorial Board, Society (journal published by Springer) 2021
• Peer reviewer for Irish Gothic Journal
• Peer Reviewer for Humanities (MDPI) 2024