Ulysses began to appear in print for the first time in the Little Review, an American avant garde literary magazine edited by Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap. Versions of fourteen of the eighteen episodes appeared there from March 1918 to September 1920. Several issues of the Little Review containing parts of Ulysses were seized by US postal authorities on the basis that they contained obscene material, and this attracted the attention of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice which took a case against the editors of the Little Review and against the book Ulysses, which Joyce hadn’t even finished writing. Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap were each fined fifty dollars for publishing obscenity, and Joyce’s Ulysses was banned in the US. Even after the episodes appeared in the Little Review, Joyce continued making revisions and additions, so Ulysses as we know it today is different from what appeared in the Little Review.

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