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Rawdogging 'Ulysses' November 27, 2024
Don Gifford’s Ulysses Annotated is 694 pages long and retails for $35 on Amazon. The paperback edition is a doorstop, bulging with more ink than Ulysses itself, indexing the thousands of oblique references to classical literature, continental philoso...
The Genius of James Joyce June 17, 2024
Reenacting the Fall of Adam and Eve with his siblings, a young James Joyce played the part of the devil, “wriggling around on the floor with a long tail made of a rolled-up towel.” In her posthumous biography James Joyce: A Life, Gabrielle Carey gran...
Book Club Spent 28 Years Reading 'Finnegans Wake' November 15, 2023
For a quarter century, Gerry Fialka, an experimental film-maker from Venice, California, has hosted a book club devoted to a single text: James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, one of the most famously difficult texts in literary history....
Irish Writers Are Dominating Literature August 18, 2023
Ireland’s literary prowess can sometimes be treated as a little strange or unlikely. I remember when Anna Burns became the first Northern Irish writer to win the Booker Prize for Milkman, back in 2018, one of the judges described the protagonist of h...
