In a world full of distractions, tackling James Joyce’s notoriously difficult novel seemed like an impossible task. It turned out to be one of the most rewarding literary experiences in my life.

James Joyce was a rather more filial son than Stephen ... without their musical settings look strangely fragile. Yeats, upon first reading them, praised Joyce's delicate talent, and shrewdly ...

Duration: 2:38 Seamus Heaney explains why James Joyce's Ulysses would be his choice of desert island reading. Seamus Heaney explains why Joyce's Ulysses would be his choice of desert island reading.

My job as a book critic used to elicit envy at cocktail parties, with people fantasising about a life spent reading. Now it’s ...

Reading complex fiction helps train the brain to adapt and operate creatively under pressure. Ulysses by James Joyce: A deep dive into modernist complexity that challenges readers with its ...

James Joyce met publisher Sylvia Beach in 1920 shortly ... Fordham University, New York Form a reading group. It comes to life if you read it alongside others. Read and dwell on small pieces ...

When James Joyce's short story collection Dubliners was published on June 15th 1914 it was the end of a long and tortuous struggle for the writer who had finished the last story in the collection ...