100 years of walking with Ulysses

With Homer's Odyssey at its heart – an epic tale of prolonged journeying to a place once recognised as home – James Joyce’s Ulysses feels more relevant to our displaced, post-pandemic mindset than ever before.

A novel of circles – Leopold Bloom’s grand, circulatory loop of the city; characters thinking themselves into circles; episodes that lock into each other like gears – that has been called the most difficult book to read since its publication exactly 100 years ago, can feel eerily familiar to anyone who has lived a portion of the past two years in a 2km radius.