Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

So you’re an admirer of James Joyce’s “Ulysses”? Well, thank Trieste for that book. Why? Gordon Bowker’s “James Joyce: A New Biography” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 608 pp., $35) shows readers how living ...

The publisher’s promotional language is so striking, and so in keeping with the author’s sensibility, that it must be quoted in full: “If you know nothing about James Joyce but would like to, this is ...

Like his sentences, meandering and twirling and refusing to settle into something soothingly predictable, James Joyce was a wanderer. The man who changed the art of the novel forever with “Ulysses” ...

Author James Joyce, shown in an undated photo, wrote "Ulysses," the epic story about one man's journey during a single day in Dublin, Ireland. In 1998, the work was selected by a panel of scholars and ...

In this excerpt from James Joyce: A New Biography, the most comprehensive Joyce biography since Richard Ellman's James Joyce, Gordon Bowker explores the sexual awakening in the pious young Joyce, as ...

I guess the man’s a genius, but what a dirty mind he has,” Nora Barnacle said after reading Ulysses. For “dirty,” substitute Joyce’s view of the human condition as comedy: Rabelaisian, rather than ...

More than 100 years ago, on June 16, 1904, Mr. Leopold Bloom and young Stephen Dedalus separately wandered the streets of Dublin, crossing paths with teachers, priests, medical students, journalists, ...

James Joyce is a monumental figure in 20th century literature. The Irish writer’s work is boldly unconventional, demanding, technically dazzling, widely admired for its groundbreaking and arduous ...