A groundbreaking and once-banned novel has been named the greatest book of all time by a major literary rankings site.

Richard Ellmann’s “James Joyce” is widely regarded as the greatest literary biography of the 20th century, much as some see Joyce’s novel “Ulysses,” published in 1922, as its supreme work of fiction. ...

Once again, fans of Irish author James Joyce have celebrated Bloomsday. Thousands of people descend on Dublin each June 16 to celebrate Joyce's epic novel Ulysses by re-creating the events in the book ...

Now, my darling Nora, I want you to read over and over all I have written to you. Some of it is ugly, obscene and bestial, some of it is pure and holy and spiritual: all of it is myself. Dublin wasn’t ...

Editor’s Note: The below story first appeared in The Irish Times on April 7, 1903. The byline simply reads “A Correspondent,” but this wasn’t one of the Times’ random pens; this was written by none ...

Three scholars, three memorable experiences, three nearly lifelong passions. For most of us, though, the book that unites them, James Joyce's Ulysses, evokes dread, not devotion. Its 700 ...

Finnegans Wake, James Joyce’s final novel, is a notoriously challenging read. In the late Eighties, New Yorkers would organize “marathon group reads” of the book that would start at noon on New Year’s ...

THE PORTABLE JAMES JOYCE (760 pp.) —Introduction and Notes by Harry Levin—Viking ($2). FABULOUS VOYAGER: JAMES JOYCE’S ULYSSES (299 pp.)—Richard M. Kain—University of Chicago ($4). Last week travelers ...

The writer left his native Ireland when he was a young man, but the nation’s struggle for independence haunted the fiction he ...

Once a month for the past 28 years, filmmaker Gerry Fialka has convened a book group to read James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake,” a book that is famously difficult to understand. This Tuesday, Oct. 3, ...