
Detail from Der Jungbrunnen (The Fountain of Youth), 1546 by Lucas Cranach the Elder (c. 1472–1553)

Detail from Der Jungbrunnen (The Fountain of Youth), 1546 by Lucas Cranach the Elder (c. 1472–1553)
Detail from Der Jungbrunnen (The Fountain of Youth), 1546 by Lucas Cranach the Elder (c. 1472–1553)

Orchard in Blossom, 1888 by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Detail from Der Jungbrunnen (The Fountain of Youth), 1546 by Lucas Cranach the Elder (c. 1472–1553)


Pantomime 6 by Denis Sarazhin (b. 1982)


Vliegende Heks (Flying Witch), 2016 by Dan Lydersen (b. 1980)

Two Musician Girls, 1880 by Osman Hamdi Bey(1842–1910)
From Richie Pope’s Fatherson, issue #13 of Youth in Decline’s monograph series Frontier. It’s so, so good. My review.

Rose Offered in a Coniferous Wood, 1946 by Robin Ironside (1912-1965)
Hide and Speak by Jolene Lai (b. 1980)



Balztanz (Courtship Dance), 2014 by Susannah Martin (b. 1964)

Marusya, 1983-1989 by Gely Korzhev (1925-2012)

Portrait of James Joyce by Djuna Barnes
What did Leopold actually do on June 16th, 1904?
Selections from one-star Amazon reviews of Ulysses

A list of Irish heroes (from “The Cyclops” episode of Ulysses)

Another page of Joyce’s notes, plus links to more


James Joyce’s eye glasses prescription
William Faulkner’s Joyce anxiety

Biblioklept’s lousy review (the review is lousy, not the book) of Dubliners
Joyce’s entry on the 1901 Irish Census

Joyce’s caricature of Leopold Bloom
Biblioklept’s review (not so lousy, the review) of a superior full-cast audio recording of Ulysses
James Joyce explains why Odysseus is the most “complete man’ in literature

Leopold’s Bloom’s recipe for burnt kidney breakfast

James Joyce’s death mask


Self Portrait at Easel, 1973 by Catherine Murphy (b. 1946)