Because Leopold Bloom doesn't lie. He doesn't pretend he's Living Your Best Life Now! He's not self-actualized. He's not working on a glossy book celebrating The Spirit of Family. People all over the ...

Princeton University Press, 320 pages, $35. My Irish Catholic grandmother fulfilled a life-long goal in her 80s when she traveled to the Holy Land; however, the story she told on her return was not of ...

Once again, fans of Irish author James Joyce have celebrated Bloomsday. Thousands of people descend on Dublin each June 16 to celebrate Joyce's epic novel Ulysses by re-creating the events in the book ...

In his famous novel, Ulysses, James Joyce described the adventures of Leopold Bloom through Dublin on June 16, 1904. Today, on "Bloomsday," author Scott Huler talks about how he became intrigued by ...

Now more than ever Leopold Bloom’s mundane day thrills with danger. While the protagonist of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” notoriously did very little, his every action — drinking at a pub; traipsing ...

Nerds the world over go all out for Bloomsday. It’s June 16, the anniversary of James Joyce and his wife Nora Barnacle’s first date in 1904, also the day Joyce chose for the events of Ulysses—three ...

in it of many Hebrew texts, suggesting yes, yes, yes, yes. Leopold Bloom is obsessed with jealousy regarding his wife Molly, who he is sure is going to commit adultery with her lover, Blazes Boylan.