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Uncut Femme
... universal blankness might be why Fox’s memoir reads like a collage of the most generic genres, a bit like the “Oxen of the Sun” episode in James Joyce’s Ulysses if instead of the historical development...
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Shocks to the System
... masterpieces of international modernism had often been hyperlocal in their settings: think of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Andrei Biely’s Petersburg, or Alfred Döblin’s Berlin...
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On Boroughed Time
... quickly built upon the old one. (If this sounds reminiscent of James Joyce’s modernist behemoth Ulysses, in which a wandering Leopold Bloom takes twenty-four hours to peregrinate around Dublin, it is...
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Cut to the Chase
... brought the world Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, James Joyce’s Ulysses, and Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera, Andrews and Power offered their own response to the end of the war. Their 1924 manifesto...
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Welcome to the Pun House
... “It feels like we’re living in hell,” James Greer tells me. A heavy sentiment, to be sure, especially when dropped into an otherwise sunny afternoon, on the back patio of a combination coffee...
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Margo Jefferson and Leslie Jamison on preserving multiplicity; “The Drift” contributors consider the state of literary fiction
... sixty-nine. In the 1982 interview, Simon Lane asked Hannah about his paintings of famous writers. Of James Joyce, the painter said: “People treat Joyce so seriously, and he was really a big comedian...
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Touchdown and Out
... ON APRIL 12, Joyce Carol Oates, who’s had a surprise second act as a social-media provocateur, tweeted, “Much prose by truly great writers (Poe, Melville, James) is actually just awkward, inept...
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Merve Emre on wandering with James Joyce’s “Ulysses”; Chuck Klosterman discusses the hazy 1990s
... For the New Yorker, Merve Emre writes about James Joyce’s Ulysses, which was published one hundred years ago...
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Lauren Oyler’s “Fake Accounts” will be adapted for TV; Charlie Tyson revisits Elizabeth Taylor’s 1971 novel of old age
... and reveals that he read James Joyce’s Ulysses for the first time during the pandemic: “It was getting embarrassing having to go silent and vague when the subject of Joyce came up. I’m a...
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Sense and Saleability
... opposite of the aloof or absent modernist god who, in James Joyce’s telling, recedes from his work to pare his fingernails.” The composition of a book once complete, shilling the thing goes on. As for...
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He Liked Having Enemies
... simplistically, as Self One and Self Two. In short order she leaps to a triumphant conclusion: Lawrence structured his life . . . around Dante’s great poem in the way that James Joyce shaped Ulysses...
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Perverted by Language
... stumble upon.” Mark Fisher’s overheated take on Smith’s literary sources starts with some favorable comparisons to Joyce and Eliot that Smith himself would have shat upon from a great height, but does...
