The writer left his native Ireland when he was a young man, but the nation’s struggle for independence haunted the fiction he ...

A groundbreaking and once-banned novel has been named the greatest book of all time by a major literary rankings site.

Editor’s Note: The below story first appeared in The Irish Times on April 7, 1903. The byline simply reads “A Correspondent,” but this wasn’t one of the Times’ random pens; this was written by none ...

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. ...

THE PORTABLE JAMES JOYCE (760 pp.) —Introduction and Notes by Harry Levin—Viking ($2). FABULOUS VOYAGER: JAMES JOYCE’S ULYSSES (299 pp.)—Richard M. Kain—University of Chicago ($4). Last week travelers ...

When I was a kid, the axis around which Dublin revolved was a huge Doric column that had stood at the center of the city since 1809. On the top was a statue of the English naval hero Vice Admiral ...

Finnegans Wake, James Joyce’s final novel, is a notoriously challenging read. In the late Eighties, New Yorkers would organize “marathon group reads” of the book that would start at noon on New Year’s ...

Now, my darling Nora, I want you to read over and over all I have written to you. Some of it is ugly, obscene and bestial, some of it is pure and holy and spiritual: all of it is myself. Dublin wasn’t ...