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 ...

James Joyce reportedly said he wanted his books to keep the critics busy for 300 years. His most famous one kept the British post office and customs busy until 1936 ...

A chance meeting with Nora Barnacle in Dublin inspired the date at the heart of Ulysses. More than a century later, Bloomsday is celebrated around the world as Ireland’s biggest literary festival, wri ...

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. ...

‘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 ...

James Joyce and Marcel Proust are remembered as towering innovators of 20th-century fiction, but their only face-to-face encounter was less a meeting of geniuses than an awkward, late-night collision ...

ANALYSIS: For many, 1922 marked a conscious break with of the old literary order and the beginning of a new literary future. However, not everyone agreed. L to R: James Joyce poses for a portrait by ...

Gabrielle Carey cast a distinctive shadow within Australian writing, one you miss acutely only when it is no longer bodily present, even as elements of her essence remain as words on the page. She was ...

Because it’s time to re-think Judge John M. Woolsey’s famous 1933 court ruling that Ulysses was not, in fact, pornography. And could be legally published in the U.S. Let’s get this offensive book ...

One hundred years ago this week, Sylvia Beach, who ran the bookstore Shakespeare and Company at 12 rue de l’Odéon in Paris and nurtured a community of expatriate writers that included Richard Wright, ...

A planned overhaul of the Dublin home that was the setting for the writer’s short story “The Dead” was opposed by writers, artists, academics and heritage groups. By Ed O’Loughlin DUBLIN — James Joyce ...