Ulysses reviewed in the NYC papers

One hundred years ago today … The first reviews of of James Joyce’s Ulysses appeared in the New York newspapers. The New York Tribune published Irish-born literary critic Ernest Boyd’s take.

*New York Tribune*, 28 May 1922, p. 53. *Library of Congress.*

The New York Times published a review by psychologist Joseph Collins, printed alongside a drawing of Joyce by Gordon Stevenson

*New York Times*, 28 May 1922, p. 47, 66. *Library of Congress.*

Ulysses was contraband in the US (we posted about its consorship here, here, and here). It had taken three-and-a-half months since its publication in Paris for the NYC papers to get their hands on it and get it reviewed. In April, someone writing for the Tribune under the pseudonym “Peregrine Pickle,” lamented the wait for their copy.

*New York Tribune*, 16 April 1922, p. 60. *Library of Congress.*

– Jonathan Goldman, May 27, 2022

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