Three scholars, three memorable experiences, three nearly lifelong passions. For most of us, though, the book that unites them, James Joyce's Ulysses, evokes dread, not devotion. Its 700 ...

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. ...

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 ...

James Joyce was 25 years old when he wrote the greatest of all Christmas stories, The Dead, in 1907. His major works—Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake—were still ahead ...

Forty years ago, I telephoned Richard Ellmann, then recently retired as Goldsmiths’ professor of English literature at Oxford, and asked him to review the critic William Empson’s last book, “Using ...

James Joyce’s own brother describes him as having failed as a bank clerk in Rome, we learn in James Campbell’s review of “One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’” (Bookshelf, June 16). Perhaps so ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

James Joyce’s masterpiece is turning 100 years old. It might never have been published if a succession of women hadn’t helped the novelist along the way. Anderson (1886–1973) launched The Little ...

Gillian Tett Well, it comes back to your point that actually money is not just a number or in a balance sheet. It’s actually ...