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Ulysses at 100

The Believer

The Believer

When nobody would touch Joyce’s manuscript, Sylvia Beach stepped in

by Keri Walsh | Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Ter Conatus

Ter Conatus

Reading Joyce in a minor key

by Donal Ryan | Thursday, June 09, 2022
Know Me Come Eat With Me

Know Me Come Eat With Me

In the world of Ulysses, food turns out to be everything

by Flicka Small | Thursday, June 09, 2022
It Happened One Day in June

It Happened One Day in June

Why Ulysses is as vital as ever— compelling, complex, and direct

by Robert J. Seidman | Wednesday, June 01, 2022
For the Joy of Joyce

For the Joy of Joyce

Abandon the notion of high-minded seriousness and simply enter into the novel’s flow

by Amit Chaudhuri | Wednesday, June 01, 2022
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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died this year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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