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Portrait of James Joyce by Djuna Barnes

How to read Ulysses

Ulysses art by Roman Muradov

Selections from one-star Amazon reviews of Ulysses

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Ulysses manuscript page

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

“Words,” a page from one of Joyce’s notebooks for Ulysses

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

James Joyce talks dirty

Filming Finnegans

James Joyce’s eye glasses prescription

William Faulkner’s Joyce anxiety

Ezra Pound on James Joyce

Marilyn Monroe reads Molly 

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

James Joyce’s passport

Leopold’s Bloom’s recipe for burnt kidney breakfast

“What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, watercarrier, returning to the range, admire?”

James Joyce’s death mask


Museo del Prado, Madrid — Elliott Erwitt

Animals of the First Creation — Barry Moser

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Diomedes Devoured by His Horses — Gustave Moreau

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The Bus — Paul Kirchner

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Fishing by Torchlight in Kai Province — Katsushika Hokusai

Vortograph of Ezra Pound — Alvin Langdon Coburn

Ken Russell’s film Savage Messiah

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Detail from the Last Judgment — Hans Memling

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Untitled (Reader) — José Sobral de Almada Negreiros

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Slightly Open Clam Shell — Georgia O’Keeffe

The Muscles of the Sky — Rene Magritte

Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers — Henry Fuseli

His skin awakens in contact with the air — Victor Hussenot

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Silent Interior — Carlos Schwabe

The Straw Manikin — Francisco Goya