On this day: 29 December 1914

With its motto “recognise no taboos”, The Egoist magazine, the anti-establishment rival of the Times Literary Supplement, ran for only five years, from 1914-19, ending with a circulation of 400, but it punched above its weight during its short life. Apart from publishing the criticism of Ezra Pound and T S Eliot it printed extracts from Ulysses and – thanks to pressure from Pound – from 29 December 1914 began a 25-part serialisation of James Joyce’s first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. It was published in book form in Paris in 1922.