This book is called a brilliant literary feat, not because it's easy to read, but because it's unlike anything written before, or since.

Ah, June, the month of fathers, graduates, brides and Bloomsday, the day the world celebrates the Irish novelist and poet, James Joyce. Many scholars believe his book "Ulysses" — a Dublin day (June ...

Here, we find Bloom and Stephen Dedalus visiting a kip-house (brothel) in Dublin’s infamous red-light district, the Monto. At first blush, it seems to be a natural and inviting fit for ...

And Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's fictional stand-in, says it with less grace: "A father is a necessary evil." It's a cold line. But not the end of the story.

James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce’s classic, published in 1916, features the protagonist Stephen Dedalus’s diary, from his years at the university.

At its core, "Ulysses" is a portrait of June 16, 1904, as it was experienced by two very different men, Stephen Daedalus and Leopold Bloom. In a very basic sense, nothing extraordinary happens in ...

Stephen Dedalus, Joyce’s alter ego from “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” is thrust into the role of Telemachus, Odysseus’ son, recast as a lofty aesthete grieving the death of ...

It’s also where Joyce’s semi-self-inserted character Stephen Dedalus goes for a walk in “Proteus” and spends an agonizing chapter stuck in his own head. Ever since reading these books, I’ve been so ...

That change has carried me well away from Stephen Dedalus’s young man’s formulation. I am still a believing Catholic, and I would still urge a Protestant friend to swim the Tiber.

Journalist and author Steve Silberman signing his 2015 book “NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity” at the U.N. headquarters in New York. (Luiz Rampelotto/Pacific ...

‘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 ...