Some time in the late 1990s, I read Dubliners by James Joyce. I recall enjoying his collection of short stories and was struck by how readable they were. That was as far as my relationship with Joyce ...

James Joyce was all of 23 years old when he wrote most of the 15 stories in Dubliners, an extraordinary collection about ordinary people, now reprinted in a centennial edition. But before the book was ...

I always like to read an Irish author around St. Patrick’s Day, and this week, for the fifth or sixth time, I found myself rereading James Joyce’s brilliant collection of short stories: “Dubliners” ...

A portrait of James Joyce taken in January 1941. It was half way through “The Boarding House,” a story from James Joyce’s collection Dubliners, published exactly 100 years ago, that I realized what ...

James Joyce was just 25 when he completed "Dubliners," perhaps the greatest short story collection ever written. It was an act of extraordinary creative daring, giving Dublin and the Irish to the ...

Kevin Maher is the author of The Fields, which comes out in the U.S in August. I don't know why we did Dubliners when we did. We were 12, some of us going on 13, and the nearest we'd been to highbrow ...

The word “epiphany” was important to Joyce. His work is so full of incredible richness and strangeness and pleasure. He’s our Cole Porter, our Bob Dylan, our Bessie Smith. You dance with him, weep ...

The geography of a city in all of its social, industrial, and personal complexity can perhaps never be fully outlined by words alone. A city is a being that sighs in sorrow and beams in happiness, yet ...