‘Ulysses,” published a century ago, has two, coexisting reputations: one for being difficult to read, on account of its modernist techniques; another, at first glance contradictory, for its exposure ...

Kevin Birmingham’s amazing history of the birthing of James Joyce’s Ulysses (described as the biography of a novel) focuses on the great writer’s “toiling through war, illness, and penury” as the ...

James Joyce’s “Ulysses” changed literature and the world, not necessarily in the ways its author intended and certainly in ways we still don’t entirely understand. One of the unexpected effects of the ...

Not many verbal artifacts are cooler than the first edition of James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” which was published, in Paris, on February 2, 1922, the author’s fortieth birthday. As is standard for books ...

Today is Bloomsday, the hundred and tenth anniversary of the events in James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” The weather in Dublin looks good; the sun won’t set tonight until just before ten. If you are a young ...