Editor’s Note: The below story first appeared in The Irish Times on April 7, 1903. The byline simply reads “A Correspondent,” but this wasn’t one of the Times’ random pens; this was written by none ...

THE PORTABLE JAMES JOYCE (760 pp.) —Introduction and Notes by Harry Levin—Viking ($2). FABULOUS VOYAGER: JAMES JOYCE’S ULYSSES (299 pp.)—Richard M. Kain—University of Chicago ($4). Last week travelers ...

Richard Ellmann’s “James Joyce” is widely regarded as the greatest literary biography of the 20th century, much as some see Joyce’s novel “Ulysses,” published in 1922, as its supreme work of fiction. ...

Finnegans Wake, James Joyce’s final novel, is a notoriously challenging read. In the late Eighties, New Yorkers would organize “marathon group reads” of the book that would start at noon on New Year’s ...

Eduardo Arroyo, a Spanish artist who died in 2018, provided drawings, watercolors and collages for an illustrated edition of the James Joyce novel. By Raphael Minder MADRID — James Joyce once said ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses, the modernist novel that forever changed literature, challenged the obscenity laws of its time, and that continues to ...

Now, my darling Nora, I want you to read over and over all I have written to you. Some of it is ugly, obscene and bestial, some of it is pure and holy and spiritual: all of it is myself. Dublin wasn’t ...

TALES TOLD OF SHEM AND SHAUN— James Joyce—Black Sun Press (Paris) ($20). A male Circe, Author James Joyce transforms upstanding, understood words into nightmarish, subconscious semblances; his latest ...

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When I was a kid, the axis around which Dublin revolved was a huge Doric column that had stood at the center of the city since 1809. On the top was a statue of the English naval hero Vice Admiral ...

Well, I finally read James Joyce’s Ulysses, and here’s what I have to say about it: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-!?:,. What? You want the letters in an order that communicates ideas and narratives with ...