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. ...

Carlos Fuentes, sometimes called “the Joyce of Mexico,” “the Balzac of Mexico” or “the Faulkner of Mexico,” was a wizardly ...

Some books are beloved. Others are debated. And a rare few completely reshape what literature can be. According to a comprehensive ranking compiled by the literary site The Greatest Books, "Ulysses" ...

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, ...

TALES TOLD OF SHEM AND SHAUN— James Joyce—Black Sun Press (Paris) ($20). A male Circe, Author James Joyce transforms upstanding, understood words into nightmarish, subconscious semblances; his latest ...

A new biography argues that the novelist was an ally of the Jews and an incisive observer of the Irish scene — even from ...