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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

JAMES JOYCE’S career at University College, Dublin, was marked by his break with his Catholic background and his emergence as a writer. In May, 1899, token he was seventeen, he refused to join a ...

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 ...

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 ...