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‘It never ends’: the book club that spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake

The group in Venice, California, started the difficult James Joyce book in 1995. They reached its final page in October

The Guardian - US

Dance First review – Samuel Beckett’s life given the high gloss Hollywood treatment

Vivid portrait of the great playwright of inertia points up the contrast with his real-life romantic entanglements and daring work for the French resistance

The Guardian - UK

Gabrielle Carey's affectionate life of James Joyce is a story of contingency, vulnerability and sadness

Gabrielle Carey cast a distinctive shadow within Australian writing, one you miss acutely only when it is no longer bodily present, even as elements of her essence remain as words on the page.

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Mr Lewis, a note of thanks for 70 years

Newcastle's gentleman of journalism has called 'stop the press'

Newcastle Herald

Director Andy Arnold on moving to a new stage after 15 years at Glasgow's Tron

THEATRE director Andy Arnold – who is leaving Glasgow’s Tron Theatre after 15 successful years at the helm – is one of the most important…

The National (Scotland)

Penelope Unbound by Mary Morrissy review – masterly alternative life of Nora Barnacle

What if James Joyce and his great love had split up at the start? Morrissy’s reimagining is a stylistic tour de force that the man himself would have surely admired

The Guardian - UK

What to expect from Bloomsday at Embassy Gardens

Lit-heads, foodies and music fans get your diary out quick— this really isn’t one you want to miss

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Unique Ulysses inspired concert taking place this Bloomsday in Dublin Cathedral

The once off concert is taking place on Bloomsday

Dublin Live

Bloomsday 2023: All you need to know about the James Joyce celebrations

There are a variety of events taking place on June 16 in Dublin for the Bloomsday Festival in celebration of Joyce's book 'Ulysses'

Dublin Live

QUIZ: Test your knowledge of renowned Dublin author James Joyce ahead of Bloomsday

Prepare for Bloomsday by seeing how much you really know about the author of Ulysses

Dublin Live

‘Our house was bombed the night I was born’: Anselm Kiefer on the nightmares he can’t escape

The great German artist has tried again and again to read James Joyce’s twisted novel Finnegans Wake. His latest show takes inspiration from that book – and from a childhood making toys from the rubble of his family home

The Guardian - UK

From Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse to Anselm Kiefer: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether it’s Marvel’s multiverse or the German artist’s Joycean dreamworld, our critics have you covered for the next seven days

The Guardian - UK

James Joyce-inspired dance experience at Bloomsday Festival 2023

The innovative multi-sensory performance also features scents found in Ulysses – from fresh bread to foul flower water

Dublin Live

James Joyce inspired concert coming to Smock Alley Theatre this June

The music group Hibsen will be preforming the concert with an ensemble of musicians.

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The Conversation

Gabrielle Carey was best known for Puberty Blues – but I knew her as a formidable intellectual who mastered the art of living well

The last time I saw Gabrielle Carey, who died this week, aged 64, was a couple of weeks ago in Sydney. I’d texted that I was coming to Sydney for the weekend, and she texted back to say she was meeting “a couple of Joyceans” for a morning walk in…

ABC News

When the Queen died, I felt betrayed by a nation. For King Charles' coronation, I feel something quite different

To take the coronation seriously would be to try to make sense of an Australian prime minister pledging his allegiance to a crown that tried to exterminate my people. For people like me, absurdity may be the only sane response, writes Stan Grant.

The Guardian - AU

Gabrielle Carey, co-author of Puberty Blues, dies aged 64

The novel, written with Kathy Lette in the 1970s when both were teenagers, was a landmark in Australian fiction

The Week

Trip of the week: the glories of Trieste – then and now

As the great seaport of the Habsburg empire, Trieste was a “thriving ethnic, financial and cultural crossroads”, dubbed “Europiccola” (Europe in miniature) by James Joyce. Then came the First World War, and the grand geopolitical shifts of the 20th century, which left it ever more isolated – hemmed in on…

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The Independent UK

Varadkar pledges to ‘roll out red carpet’ for Biden’s visit to Ireland

The Taoiseach said the US President’s trip would be a visit like no other.

Belfast Live

Joe Biden: Secret Service and White House officials visit Belfast ahead of US Presidential tour

White House officials and Secret Service visit Belfast ahead of President Biden's tour

The Independent UK

White House officials visit Belfast ahead of potential Biden trip

The officials also toured sites in Dublin and elsewhere as part of planning for a presidential visit by Joe Biden to the island.

Evening Standard

Silence from Jeremy Corbyn’s allies after he is purged by Keir Starmer

Only Diane Abbott, Corbyn’s oldest ally, has spoken out

The Conversation

Valentine's Day: why you should send a love letter not a text – with help from some of English’s greatest writers

Most of us, these days, communicate via text message, email and posts on social media. The age of the letter, it seems, is past.

The Conversation

How Chaucer's medieval Wife of Bath was tamed and then liberated in the 21st century

Chaucer’s Wife of Bath is one of the most famous characters in English literature. Since appearing in the Canterbury tales in 1387, her tale has been rewritten and adapted by authors from the French philosopher Voltaire in the 18th century to the contemporary author Zadie Smith in 2021.

The Guardian - UK

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in December

Critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

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