Why Read Ulysses-Voices From Around the World

The 2026 season opens with this podcast. Ulysses in 80 is a global reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses, now in its fifth year, moving through the book together over eighty days. This episode gathers twenty-four voices — all participants in the global group — who offered their own response to a simple question: why read Ulysses? This is the first podcast of the 2026 season. These voices were not recorded in a studio, and not rehearsed. They arrived as they are — from around the world — finding ...