On August 16, 1922, in the midst of writing Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf penned a passage in her diary panning James Joyce's Ulysses. "An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me ... the book of a ...

“Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liver slices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes.

‘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 at 12 rue de l’Odéon in Paris and nurtured a community of expatriate writers that included Richard Wright, ...

BLOOMSDAY may not have reached the nerd heights of Comic-Con, but it’s still a glorious expression of fandom. Each year, in honor of the raunchy, transcendent Dublin day recounted in James Joyce’s ...

The season of lists is now upon us: best book, best film, best album ... of 2010. But, I was recently tempted by another, older list: the Modern Library's best novels in English since 1900 (first ...

Ulysses is often written off as inaccessible but the epic is much more readable than most assume. mage Professionals GmbH/Alamy James Joyce’s Ulysses was first published 100 years ago. For a century, ...