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To touch the heart of Dublin and the country beyond, look to James Joyce's "Dubliners," the poetry of Yeats and a comic masterpiece by Flann O'Brien.
By John Banville
June 15, 2006
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Why isn't there a DVD of "The Dead"? What's the future of Liverpool lit? And can Nick Hornby really tell us anything about criticism as a whole? Salon readers weigh in.
December 15, 2004
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Forget Scrooge and Tiny Tim -- James Joyce's "The Dead," with its distinctively Irish blend of music and tragedy, is the ultimate yuletide tale. And why isn't John Huston's marvelous film version available on DVD?
By Allen Barra
December 14, 2004
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Sometimes the best place to read "Finnegans Wake" aloud is in a disgusting San Francisco nightclub flanked by a wall of TVs.
By Cary Tennis
March 16, 2001
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A team of valiant friends tackles James Joyce's magnum opus, and one winds up in family court because of it.
By Susan G. Hauser
March 16, 2001
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Biting into one is all about love and loss and family and ... Oh, who are we kidding: They just taste so good!
By King Kaufman
February 27, 2001
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"Sisters"
By James Joyce
October 5, 2000
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"Finnegans Wake"
by James Joyce
October 5, 2000
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"Sisters"
By James Joyce
October 5, 2000
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To hell with European philosophers: The breakthroughs of non-European thinkers are the 1960s' greatest legacy.
By Camille Paglia
March 4, 2000
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No one sheds light on darkness from quite the same perspective as this Cape Cod specialist in morbid, fine-lined jocularity.
By Amy Benfer
February 15, 2000
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What will Erin's literary artists write about now that their motherland has found its pot of gold?
By Daniel Reitz
August 31, 1999
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James Joyce's short story is full of old Irish airs, but scholars are skeptical.
By Craig Offman
August 27, 1999
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"Ulysses 1" fever is blooming all over as stores prepare for an onslaught of Joyce fans.
By Wes Tooke
May 20, 1999
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Julia Alvarez talks about moving to America, her relationship with her family and the rituals that keep her a focused writer.
By Dwight Garner
September 25, 1998
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On Bloomsday, a portrait of James Joyce as a young Web-head.
By Karlin Lillington
June 16, 1998
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Biographer Jay Parini on his favorite biographies, about such writers as James Joyce, Henry James, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope and Ralph Waldo Emerson
By Jay Parini
November 19, 1997
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