Hints and tips:
...After years of posing as Joyce, the urge to put herself in front of the camera has gone. “I’ve been trying to work it out,” she says....
...But the abiding influence is that of Banville’s lodestar, James Joyce....
...A few times, when the novel made use of what we might call Celtic tones in prose, it was only to mock them....
...Finally, my fifth guest is that most enigmatic of fictional figures, the grand cuckolder of (half-Jewish) Leopold Bloom in Joyce’s Ulysses, Molly Bloom....
...Panthers stalk curvaceous arches, chubby cupids prop up drainpipes and distinctive stone slabs slyly mock Rome’s noble elite, as the style was traditionally used on Renaissance palazzi....
...All as universal and attractive as a black T-shirt (stay away from Henry James and James Joyce, which create a heavy, academic look)....
...“When we talk about us getting huge sums of money in aid, I worry about the tone,” says Joyce Banda, Malawi’s former president....
...Whitman founded the idiosyncratic Left Bank bookshop Shakespeare and Company, named in homage to the prewar store once run by James Joyce’s Paris publisher....
...It’s a quotation from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, resonant for a city where art has thrived on exquisite mimicries of insanity: Dada was born here, the anarchic Cabaret Voltaire still flourishes, Joyce...
...Bach to Edith Piaf — his Watch with Mother (Joyce Grenfell a haunting presence in a nursery school), Town and Country (satirical romping with urban and pastoral activities), and The Infernal Galop (a tourist...
...To December 31; joyce.org Photograph: Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo...
...But somehow this fragile fusion of commedia dell’arte foolishness and mock-seria heroism emerged bright and vital, even brash....
...“If preventative measures are not taken, some astronauts may be at increased risk for age-related fractures decades after missions,” says study leader Joyce Keyak....
...Over a lunch of curried sausages in Berlin, Alan Joyce, the head of Australia’s Qantas, told me that when his airline started flying abroad in 1935, a trip from Sydney to London cost the equivalent of 122...
...The singer Joni Mitchell used to mock fans’ requests that she perform her old hits in concert by arguing: “No one ever said to van Gogh, ‘Hey, paint “A Starry Night” again!’”...
...as bullets etched into the chiaroscuro shapes of the pen and wash “Self-portrait”; arched, scornful eyebrows in the demonic grinning “Mr Wyndham Lewis as a Tyro”; threateningly blank countenance in the mock-tranquil...
...I nod in mock comprehension. My peppermint tea arrives, alongside an espresso for Amis. It is time, again, to move away from boys’ talk to politics....
...”Yes, by Joyce Carol Oates. That was many years ago and I am still trying to work it out. What do you think it means?...
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