The brilliance of Judge Woolsey
From Louis Menand’s New Yorker essay on literary books banned for obscenity: “The term “obscene” is a...
Tag: James Joyce
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reading the Wake
James Joyce, text portrait by Rod McLaren Let me just post without comment — except for taking this moment to express...
Joyce, Tolkien, and copyright
James Joyce’s Ulysses is fascinating in many ways, not least because it has proven such a magnet for controversy of...
adventurousness and its enemies
Yesterday I wrote that insofar as writing becomes social, it will become less, not more, adventurous. Here’s why:...
jest the third
Episode 12 of Ulysses is called “Cyclops,” and in the schematic outline of the book that Joyce produced for a few...
how not to run a literary estate
In 1957, when he was 69 years old, T. S. Eliot married 32-year-old Valerie Fletcher. When he died in 1965 she took...