Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

So you’re an admirer of James Joyce’s “Ulysses”? Well, thank Trieste for that book. Why? Gordon Bowker’s “James Joyce: A New Biography” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 608 pp., $35) shows readers how living ...

The publisher’s promotional language is so striking, and so in keeping with the author’s sensibility, that it must be quoted in full: “If you know nothing about James Joyce but would like to, this is ...

Zachary Leader’s book on Richard Ellmann’s landmark work on James Joyce asks whether a biographer can be considered an artist. In 1927—just five years after the publication of Ulysses and five years ...

In this excerpt from James Joyce: A New Biography, the most comprehensive Joyce biography since Richard Ellman's James Joyce, Gordon Bowker explores the sexual awakening in the pious young Joyce, as ...

Since 1963, the James Joyce Quarterly has been the international flagship journal of Joyce studies. Appearing four times a year, JJQ brings together a wide array of critical and theoretical work ...

James Joyce scholar Carol Loeb Shloss is perhaps better known to the Joyce heirs than any of the Dubliner's other biographers. Shloss, 64, a consulting professor of English at Stanford University, ...

I guess the man’s a genius, but what a dirty mind he has,” Nora Barnacle said after reading Ulysses. For “dirty,” substitute Joyce’s view of the human condition as comedy: Rabelaisian, rather than ...

James Joyce is a monumental figure in 20th century literature. The Irish writer’s work is boldly unconventional, demanding, technically dazzling, widely admired for its groundbreaking and arduous ...