Gordon Bowker's "James Joyce: A New Biography" doesn't break new ground, but its knowledgeable and engaging perspective will please fans of the Irish writer and anyone fascinated by writers' lives.

The status of James Joyce as a writer never could be determined in his lifetime. In the opinion of some critics, notably Edmund Wilson, he deserved to rank with the great innovators of literature ...

Heeding the lessons of James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” a century later Joyce's great novel, 100 years later, warns us off nationalism and idolatry, brings us together in life and death.

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 ...

When the first day of 2012 dawned, the works of James Joyce moved into the public domain -- for the most part. Joyce’s grandson Stephen, his only living relative, ...

The group in California started on the notoriously challenging novel by James Joyce in 1995. In October, it reached the end. By Livia Albeck-Ripka Reporting from Los Angeles The first sign that ...

Ulysses, the groundbreaking modernist novel by James Joyce, marked its 100-year anniversary last year; it was first published on February 2, 1922.The poet T.S. Eliot declared the novel to be "the ...

This old English major’s heart is warmed by the news that the new synthetic cell carries a line from James Joyce, inscribed in its DNA: “To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life ...

James Joyce’s biographer traveled all over Europe searching for details about the author of “Ulysses” and “Dubliners.” The result was a masterpiece.