What Would Leopold Bloom Do? Volume 4
Complex and confusing, filled with words you don’t know and people you don’t understand, life is even more difficult to navigate than Ulysses. But luckily, we have Ulysses to help… Read more »
What Would Leopold Bloom Do? Complex and confusing, filled with words you don’t know and people you don’t understand, life is even more difficult to navigate than Ulysses. But luckily, we have Ulysses to help… Read more »
What Would Leopold Bloom Do? Ask him yourself in our new advice column
Complex and confusing, filled with words you don’t know and people you don’t understand, life is even more difficult to navigate than Ulysses. But luckily, we have Ulysses to help… Read more »
James Joyce’s growing popularity in China
When people think about Bloomsday, the annual celebration of James Joyce’s Ulysses, they typically think of Dublin, the city in which the novel’s action take place—they probably wouldn’t think of… Read more »
What Would Leopold Bloom Do?
Complex and confusing, filled with words you don’t know and people you don’t understand, life is even more difficult to navigate than Ulysses, but luckily, we have Ulysses to help… Read more »
The Ulysses virtual reality game
It’s hardly unusual for video games to take their inspiration from works of literature. Sci-fi and fantasy books (especially those that have also been turned into movies or television shows)… Read more »
The “bewildering” task of illustrating Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake sometimes feels like a big, tome-shaped scab. Not to suggest that it’s bad or anything—scabs do their job amazingly well when they’re left alone. But people just can’t… Read more »
“Take two ‘Ulysses’ and call me in the morning”: translating Joyce for health and pleasure
Our past investigations on this blog into the singular world of translators who’ve embarked on books by James Joyce have indicated that translating Joyce is not good for your health… Read more »
Little magazines, editors fried in oil, and a million final revisions: the incredible true story of the publication of “Ulysses”
No book’s path to publication is painless, but some are more painful than others. One of the most torturous in modern literary history was that of Ulysses, whose story is… Read more »
Central Bank of Ireland misquotes Ulysses on commemorative coin
“I fear those big words,” says Stephen Daedalus, early in Ulysses, “that make us so unhappy.” Stephen, of course, isn’t referring to words like “onomatopoeia” or “honorificabilitudinitatibus,” but to words with… Read more »