The Latest Breaking News from James Joyce

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…

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

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…