I often advise against starting at the beginning of the novel. In the case of Ulysses, you are thrown head-first into the difficult stream of consciousness of Stephen Dedalus, a precocious 22-year-old ...

James Joyce once claimed he had written a whole chapter of Ulysses while lying on his back in bed, scribbling sentences on scrap paper with a crayon. Yeah, crayon. That’s the kind of wild, unfiltered ...

An award-winning Irish filmmaker and animator just received crowd-sourced funding to kickstart his work turning James Joyce's Ulysses into a virtual reality video game. The concept is to immerse ...

“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 ...

June 16 is a very good day for Leopold Bloom. Bloom is the main character who in James Joyce's "Ulysses" famously traverses Dublin on a single day in 1904, sharing his unfiltered, unvarnished, often ...

Buildings constructed out of words, characters made with such complexity that they can jump out the pages and stories so vivid, it feels like one is reading an epic. These words describe James Joyce’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

A stage adaptation of ‘Ulysses’ presented by UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance inspires a rereading of the James Joyce classic, and the takeaways are different this time around. One strategy: ...

James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, one of the most impactful ever written in the English language, will be celebrated on June 16 in an event known as Bloomsday. From Australia to Santa Barbara, devoted fans ...

What deems a book obscene? Sylvia Beach, owner of Shakespeare and Company bookstore and publisher of Joyce's 'Ulysses,' is pictured with James Joyce in the 1920s. (Nederland Community Library/Courtesy ...