Dublin holidaysOn the centennial of James Joyce’s modernist masterpiece, we offer a pilgrimage you can fit into a single day Today marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ulysses, by Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company. It’s also James Joyce’s birthday; he was born on 2 February 1882 – 140 years ago. Ulysses is contemporary with the Irish Free State, established on 6 December 1922; historians love to pore over its dense, riddling text for clues about the national psyche at the time.

California This article is more than 2 months oldMuslim Stanford student hospitalized in suspected hate crime hit-and-run This article is more than 2 months oldUniversity says incident being investigated as possible hate crime after Abdulwahab Omira suffered non-life-threatening injuries An Arab Muslim student at Stanford University was hospitalized after being struck in a hit-and-run that authorities are investigating as a hate crime, amid rising threats against Arab and Muslim people across the US.

OpinionCulture This article is more than 2 years oldSatan shoes? Sure. But Lil Nas X is not leading American kids to devil-worshipThis article is more than 2 years oldAkin OllaThis whole controversy is part of a long history of misdirected moral outrage that blames artists for the social ills of society Lil Nas X, a 21-year-old musical artist first famous for his rap/country hit Old Town Road, has ruffled quite a few feathers with the release of the video for his new single Montero: Call Me By Your Name.

Familiar faces … The Durrells, the TV adaptation of My Family and Other Animals. Photograph: John Rogers/ITVFamiliar faces … The Durrells, the TV adaptation of My Family and Other Animals. Photograph: John Rogers/ITVBiography booksReviewThe truth about Corfu’s eccentric expat family was much darker than the comic myth – but do we need another biography of the family? When My Family and Other Animals was published in 1956 it was as if someone had flung back the curtains, thrown up the windows and let in a stream of bright light.

TheatreReviewMinerva theatre, Chichester Amy Herzog’s play about a grandmother surprised by her grandson is given a contemplative staging by Richard Eyre Timothée Chalamet and Eileen Atkins were fully rehearsed for this family drama at London’s Old Vic when theatres closed due to Covid in 2020. After its eventual cancellation, Atkins picks up her role as 91-year-old Greenwich Village lefty Vera, directed instead by Richard Eyre in Chichester, opposite Heartstopper’s Sebastian Croft in lieu of Chalamet.