Ulysses

Immaculate, Erotic and Quintessentially Modern: On Edna O’Brien’s Night

Jane Alison In Praise of a Little-Known Novel From Ireland’s Foremost Chronicler of the Feminine Experience

 
By Jane Alison  June 17, 2025
Historical Fiction

Include as Little History as You Can: The Danger of Explaining Too Much in Historical Fiction

By Jesse Browner  May 20, 2025
Book Design

Secrets of the Designer: The Nuance of Creating the Perfect Book Cover

By Alia Hanna Habib  April 7, 2025
In Conversation

Clinging to an Ardent Hope: Eli Zuzovsky on Film, Selfhood, and Being an Israeli Writer Today

By Eli Zuzovsky  February 21, 2025
James Baldwin

Colm Tóibín on James Baldwin’s Enduring, International Influence

By Caoilinn Hughes  August 2, 2024
Bloomsday

A Book Club of Two: The Time I Started a James Joyce Reading Group in College

By Kristopher Jansma  June 14, 2024
Writing the Novel

Scott Guild on Trying to Read Finnegans Wake While on Tour With His Band

By Scott Guild  February 15, 2024
Spirituality

Between Conversion and Repentance: Christian Wiman on the Uses of Fiction

By Christian Wiman  December 5, 2023
Feature

Nothing is Lost in Translation: On Basque, Spanish, English and the Language of Dreams

By Kirmen Uribe  October 16, 2023
Queer Literature

A Queer Reimagining of James Joyce’s Ulysses in Northern England

By Helen Palmer  July 26, 2023
What to Watch

Umberto Eco’s Favorite Books Give New Meaning to the Phrase “Deep Cut”

By Literary Hub  June 22, 2023
The Hub

Read a 1922 review of James Joyce’s Ulysses.

By Dan Sheehan  June 16, 2023
Bloomsday

Happy Bloomsday! Turn off your wifi and read some Joyce.

By Jonny Diamond  June 16, 2023
The Hub

Will you take the Ulysses in 80 challenge?

By Dan Sheehan  June 2, 2023
Ukraine

“My Ithaca Burned Down, Too.” A Letter from a Teenage Joycean and Ukrainian Refugee

By José Vergara  January 3, 2023
History of Literature

How Was Your Ulysses?

By History of Literature  October 24, 2022
James Joyce

Cranly’s Arm: On Finding and Seeking Gay Desire in Joyce

By Paul McAdory  February 23, 2022
The Classics

Ulysses Turns 100!

By Literary Hub  February 2, 2022
Illustrations

Eduardo Arroyo’s Dreamy, Abstract Illustrations of Ulysses

By Jonny Diamond  January 27, 2022
Illustrations

Eduardo Arroyo’s Dreamy, Abstract Illustrations of Ulysses

By Literary Hub  January 27, 2022
Artists

How Artists Navigate the Interplay of Authority and Freedom

By Jed Perl  January 12, 2022
The Hub

Who will buy the £80,000 watch from James Joyce’s Ulysses?

By Walker Caplan  October 20, 2021
Math

How to Read Ulysses
By the Numbers

By Eric Bulson  January 11, 2021
Bloomsday

Join Stephen Colbert, Claire Danes, and more in celebrating this Bloomsday.

By Julia Hass  June 16, 2020
5 Questions

Colum McCann on Ulysses, Mary Lavin, and Drinking with John Berger

By Literary Hub  February 25, 2020
Literary Long Weekend

How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Philadelphia

By Literary Hub  November 10, 2019
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