The Mysteries of Life, Turn and James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’

On cold winter nights, James Joyce’s “The Dead” returns with quiet force. It lingers over an ordinary party before unveiling something devastatingly human: love given too late, lives misunderstood, the living haunted by the dead. In its final snowfall, Joyce dissolves our illusions of permanence and self-importance, reminding us how thin the line is between longing and loss — and how mysteriously we all belong to one another.