think it might be interesting to co-relate people's opinions of Nolan's Odyssey against which translation they prefer or are most familiar with. For me it's Lattimore and I was, let us say… disappointed. /1

This is the perfect time to make a film adaptation of Ulysses and transpose the cast of Nolan's Odyssey (Matt Damon as Bloom, Anne Hathaway as Molly, Tom Holland as Stephen, etc.).

What better way to keep Bloomsday alive than by buying and reading Joyce’s Theatrical Poetics by Valérie Bénéjam

A merry Bloomsday to one and all (and sundry)

I only know two tunes: one of them is Love's Old Sweet Song and the other one isn't #Bloomsday #justasongattwilight

‘𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 was born from loneliness, confidence about contacting writers (Scott Fitzgerald refused to write in the first issue), sky-high hopes for the “sun and moon” of criticism.’ Susannah Clapp on Margaret C. Anderson’s small magazine. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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For a time the London Review of Books might have been considered a little magazine: uncertain of its future but clear it...

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you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

In his new book, 'The poetry of suicide', poet and author @jtwelsch.bsky.social weaves stories of poets who took their own lives with the history of suicide in his family, searching for a new way of understanding these difficult deaths. Pre-order from your local bookshop or online today. #booksky

The School of English at Trinity College Dublin is looking to hire an 18th century specialist: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS657/a...

Assistant Professor in 18th Century Literature at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

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Louis Hay, 1926–2026; may his memory be an exogenetic blessing www.item.ens.fr/hay/

4-week reading group on “Circe” beginning February 10! Our facilitators will be Lizzie Belnap, Quinn Gruber, Casey Lawrence, Sam Slote, and Robert Spoo. joycesociety.com/readinggroups #jamesjoyce #ulysses @jamesjoycegazette.bsky.social @myexplodingpen.bsky.social @samslote.bsky.social

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As the lion, in our teargarten remembers the nenuphars of his Nile …, the besieged bedreamt him stil and solely of those lililiths undeveiled which had undone him, gone for age, and knew not the watchful treachers at his wake, and theirs to stay.

I recommend people watch WALKER by Alex Cox. Forgive the trailer, they had to market it somehow, but it’s a minor miracle that Universal Pictures even theatrically released such a strong indictment of US foreign policy in Latin America at all. It’s on Internet Archive youtu.be/XImi7fT7-J0

Official Trailer - WALKER (1987, Ed Harris, Richard Masur, Marlee Matlin, Alex Cox)

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Where are the watchful eyes of the Skibbereen Eagle when they are most needed: ‘We hope that Ireland will hold Russia accountable’, Zelenskiy tells Oireachtas. www.e-pages.dk/irishtimes/5...

Amazingly, even though Finnegans Wake is, fundamentally, fanfic about Lord Mayors of Dublin, there are no references to NYC mayors. Although, to be fair, the only ones who might have conceivably caught Joyce's attention would be Fiorello LaGuardia and 'Beau' Jimmy Walker.

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

A reminder that pg researchers and ECRs working in Romantic Studies in the UK are invited to apply for a Stephen Copley Research Award (valued up to £500) The late Stephen Copley supervised my PhD and I appreciate seeing his name live on like this #Romanticism www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

RIP Roland McHugh

Finally!

Just landed: Congrong Dai’s complete translation of Finnegans Wake

Hey look, Donald Trump — the leaders of three countries of 3 billion people got together just to laugh at you! Just imagine the fun they had discussing in detail what an idiot you are. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...

Amazing story about the political lunatic fringe in Ireland, so far, mercifully, on the fringes: www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

The new IRB: a band of conspiracy theorists who have set up a parallel Irish ‘government’

This fringe group, drawn from the ranks of anti-lockdown protesters and business people laid low by the crash, have a cabinet, local co-ops and even a network of ‘courts’

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Robert Wilson, Provocative Playwright and Director, Is Dead at 83 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/t...

Robert Wilson, Provocative Playwright and Director, Is Dead at 83

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Oh dear, I got my wires crossed! It’s actually September 2026!! Sorry about that folks, and please, those of you holding your breath, stop holding!

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‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ will be published by Oxford University Press on 10 September 2025. Set your watches, mark your calendars, and spread the word!

Latest arrival from the University of Florida Press’s James Joyce series: Sensational Joyce by John Gordon

Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!

The James Joyce Society has an excellent programme of events lined up for the next year joycesociety.com/events

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A merry Bloomsday to all