IrishCentral contributor Martin Burns celebrates James Joyce’s masterpiece "Ulysses", its journey through Dublin and what makes Leopold Bloom so special... or not.

As someone who is reading Ulysses like I am prepping for Armageddon—Annotations splayed wide on my coffee table, pen in hand, bewitched by every wrinkle in the prose—this process seemed flatly ...

‘Ulysses’ is an ‘impossible’ novel. Now — somehow — it’s also a play. Elevator Repair Service, known for its word-for-word reproduction of “The Great Gatsby,” has wrestled (and ...

Ireland is preparing to mark 100 years since Bloomsday, the day on which James Joyce's novel Ulysses is set - 16 June 1904. But why is Joyce - and Ulysses in particular - continually held up as such a ...

There's no such thing as 'too clever books', writes former English teacher, PhD researcher, editor, writer and recovering bibliophile, Ryan Coogan. No, not even Ulysses ...

THE CENTER OF THE STAGE (290 pp.)—Gerald Sykes—Farrar, Straus & Young ($3). Dr. David Holderness, M.D., was no Ulysses—he was just a more or less preoccupied research man returning to the U ...

“The United States vs. Ulysses” centers on the case, tried at the Southern District of New York in 1933, of United States v.One Book Called Ulysses, which is a landmark of America’s law on free ...

German Ulysses*ALEXAXDERPLATZ, BERLIN — Alfred Doblin; translated by Eugene Jolas— Viking ($5). The birth of books is never quite legitimate, and often their parentage is hopelessly ...

Ready, set, go: Read “Ulysses.” That’s the subject of “Ulysses in 80-Reading James Joyce Masterpiece in 80 Days,” a podcast and international community summer reading project starting ...

Give Ulysses a chance and its pleasures are spellbinding. Yes, it contains passages that are trying. Few of us could truly say we love every sequence in the book, as we mightn’t love every track ...

For much of his life, Ulysses S. Grant failed at every occupation he tried. But in the United States Army, his remarkable talents as a soldier and leader saved his country from falling apart. Born ...