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Jess’s Book Club Pick for May: Dubliners by James Joyce

May 1, 2008, 10:02 GMT

If you are groaning, just wait. Let me begin by saying that if you’ve never gotten around to reading James Joyce, and you’ve had an inkling to do so, Dubliners would be the pick for you. ... more

Featured Book Review: Dubliners by James Joyce

Apr 30, 2008, 10:54 GMT

Many years ago I got into an argument with a drunken professor over James Joyce. My contention was that no scholars had ever looked into the role that Joyce’s syphilis had in the breakdown of his narrative abilities. Most have taken for granted that all of the dashing of Joyce’s style from Dubliners, his first published fiction, through Finnegans Wake, his last, was by choice. ... more