John Turner

John Turner is a professor of modern history at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and the author of a study of Harold Macmillan. He is working on a history of the Conservative Party.

Letter

Arruginated

7 September 2023

John Glenday writes about a pair of errors in the ‘Ithaca’ episode of Ulysses (Letters, 5 October). He justifiably wonders if the second was an attempt to correct the first, but in fact it isn’t. ‘Ithaca’ is filled with mistakes, some of which may have been deliberate, others pretty clearly accidental; in our book, Annotations to James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’, we have tried to account for...

Arruginated: James Joyce’s Errors

Colm Tóibín, 7 September 2023

Ulysses is haunted by the story of its own composition. As Joyce famously put it, ‘I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant,...

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