When the EU copyright for Ulysses expired on 1 January this year, Patrick Fitzgerald took his play ‘Gibraltar: An Adaptation After James Joyce’s Ulysses’, first performed at New York’s Bowery Electric in 2010, to The New Theatre at Temple Bar,aaa

In honour of Alex Dimopoulos’s offal recipes, soon to be divulged in issue 2, here’s his recipe for a decent papaya salad, from issue 1. “Malaysia Truly Asia” is a slogan you will have seen everywhere if you’ve been toaaa

Séumas Fitz (who tells Banner that he boasts “BA, MA, PhD (x2)”), unearthed the above graph detailing how culturally brilliant each chapter of ‘Ulysses’ is. As yet unpublished (any takers?), Fitz has discussed the graph in his essay ‘The forthcomingaaa

We’re still printing Banner and people are still buying it. As per the earlier post, you can pick it up from quite a few London bookshops now (Daunt Cheapside, LRB Bookshop, Dulwich Books, Wapping Project Bookshop) but we’re also sendingaaa

Banner Issue 1 is on sale now, in print. You can pick up a copy from The London Review of Books Bookshop, near the British Museum, and at Daunt Books, Cheapside. It’s also available at The Wapping Project Bookshop andaaa

‘I fear those big words…which make us so unhappy’. So spoke Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce’s Ulysses, as the down-and-out writer took his pay for his teaching kip and got ready to set out on a sometimes- drunken wander aroundaaa