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Celebrating Bloomsday
Today is Bloomsday, a commemoration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce. Today will feature celebrations of the events of his novel Ulysses, which was set on June 16.
Earlier this year, Bryony Randall, a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow, took a close look at the the history of novels which focused on the action of just a single day, like Ulysses. Her essay was published in the journal New Literary History, and she joined our podcast series to discuss her essay and just what makes the one-day novel a draw for some people.
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Callaloo presents: A bell hooks reading list
This spring, Vice President JD Vance announced the release of his new memoir, Communion, prompting a grassroots social media campaign that urged readers to—as The Word Is Change bookstore in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn put it—“make sure if any book called Communion...
The U.S. at 250: A Semiquincentennial Reading List
The United States of America turns 250 years old this July — and in that time a lot of history was made!To commemorate the occasion, we dove into our catalog to surface a selection of the books and journals published by Hopkins Press exploring milestone events...
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