Our reviewer called “Ulysses” the “most important contribution that has been made to fictional literature in the 20th century.” That doesn’t mean he liked it. Credit...O.O.P.S. Supported by ULYSSES by ...

‘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 ...

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

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 ...

“The United States vs. Ulysses” centers on the case, tried at the Southern District of New York in 1933, of United States v. One Book Called Ulysses, which is a landmark of America’s law on free ...

James Joyce and Sylvia Beach at Shakespeare and Company circa 1926 Courtesy of the Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York When James ...

The Twitter account UlyssesReader is what programmers call a “corpus-fed bot.” The corpus on which it feeds is James Joyce’s modernist epic, “Ulysses,” which was published a hundred years ago this ...

Ultimately the legacy of the classic modernist novel may reside in how attentively and scrupulously it concentrates on the music of tentative, shambolic, open-ended urban lives. James Joyce in Zurich, ...

Every year on June 16, I wish family and friends a Happy Bloomsday. Often, I am met with bemusement and looks of bewilderment. So, I think I should explain what exactly Bloomsday is and why it matters ...