Leopold Bloom
The Lost Leader
James Joyce: A New Biography By Gordon Bowker (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 608 pp., $35) READ MORE >>
From the Archives: Edmund Wilson on Ulysses
Each year, June 16 marks Bloomsday, a celebration where Dubliners, fans of James Joyce, and the hardy souls who count themselves among the few who have actually finished Ulysses commemorate the life of the great Irish novelist. It was this day in 1904 that Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Joyce’s magnum opus, spent wandering the streets of the Irish capital. In his authoritative review of the novel in TNR, Edmund Wilson reflects on the scale of the work, whose first edition weighed in at 730 pages. READ MORE >>
Why Do People Love 'Catcher in the Rye'?
The Moral Baby
Wodehouse: A Life By Robert McCrum (W.W. Norton, 530 pp., $27.95) READ MORE >>
