How Molly Bloom Got Her Apostrophes

Lawrence Rainey, 19 June 1997

Ulysses 
by James Joyce, edited by Danis Rose.
Picador, 739 pp., £20, June 1997, 0 330 35229 6
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“... they agreed on a plan for a deluxe edition of 1000 copies. Acting on the advice of her friend Adrienne Monnier, who had already published five deluxe editions, Beach decided on Maurice Darantiere, located in Dijon, as the printer. The result was confusion for all concerned. When Joyce reached his agreement with Beach in April, he had already completed the ...”

What’s the doofus for?

Clair Wills: Elif Batuman’s Education, 7 July 2022

Either/Or 
by Elif Batuman.
Cape, 360 pp., £16.99, May, 978 1 78733 386 4
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“... For Selin, given the culture she’s grown up in, they are normal. But that’s the problem.Adrienne Rich’s ‘Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence’ (1980) is one of the works that inspired this novel. It’s an essay in which Rich explores the ‘bias’ created by heterosexual social ...”

Why children’s books?

Katherine Rundell, 6 February 2025

“... taste. The food in Redwall is the thing most of its readers remember: it gives the story the rich shine of desire. You might, were you a Redwall mouse, have a feast of ‘tender freshwater shrimp garnished with cream and rose leaves, devilled barley pearls in acorn purée, apple and carrot chews, marinated cabbage stalks steeped in creamed white turnip ...”