James Joyce was all of 23 years old when he wrote most of the 15 stories in Dubliners, an extraordinary collection about ordinary people, now reprinted in a centennial edition. But before the book was ...

It was half way through “The Boarding House,” a story from James Joyce’s collection Dubliners, published exactly 100 years ago, that I realized what good writing really was. In the story a young man ...

I always like to read an Irish author around St. Patrick’s Day, and this week, for the fifth or sixth time, I found myself rereading James Joyce’s brilliant collection of short stories: “Dubliners” ...

James Joyce was just 25 when he completed "Dubliners," perhaps the greatest short story collection ever written. It was an act of extraordinary creative daring, giving Dublin and the Irish to the ...

The geography of a city in all of its social, industrial, and personal complexity can perhaps never be fully outlined by words alone. A city is a being that sighs in sorrow and beams in happiness, yet ...

This year marks a century since the publication of Dubliners by James Joyce, and a year since writer and editor Thomas Morris struck on an idea to riff on the literary classic. As Morris explained it, ...

The word “epiphany” was important to Joyce. His work is so full of incredible richness and strangeness and pleasure. He’s our Cole Porter, our Bob Dylan, our Bessie Smith. You dance with him, weep ...