James Joyce

  • Destination: Ireland

    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

  • Letters

    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

  • The greatest Christmas story of all

    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

  • Punk wake

    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

  • "Finnegans Wake" breakdown

    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

  • Mallomar memories

    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

  • James Joyce

    "Sisters"
    By James Joyce October 5, 2000

  • James Joyce

    "Finnegans Wake"
    by James Joyce October 5, 2000

  • James Joyce

    "Sisters"
    By James Joyce October 5, 2000

  • The North American intellectual tradition

    To hell with European philosophers: The breakthroughs of non-European thinkers are the 1960s' greatest legacy.
    By Camille Paglia March 4, 2000

  • Edward Gorey

    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

  • The suffering Irish

    What will Erin's literary artists write about now that their motherland has found its pot of gold?
    By Daniel Reitz August 31, 1999

  • Christopher Walken to star in musical version of "The Dead"

    James Joyce's short story is full of old Irish airs, but scholars are skeptical.
    By Craig Offman August 27, 1999

  • The phantom manuscript

    "Ulysses 1" fever is blooming all over as stores prepare for an onslaught of Joyce fans.
    By Wes Tooke May 20, 1999

  • Something to declare

    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

  • Ulysses in Net-town

    On Bloomsday, a portrait of James Joyce as a young Web-head.
    By Karlin Lillington June 16, 1998

  • The art of life

    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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