The magazine serialized James Joyce's "Ulysses" starting in 1918. "The Little Review" continued to publish "Ulysses" until 1921 when the Post Office seized copies of the magazine and refused to distribute them on the grounds that "Ulysses" constituted obscene material. As a result, the magazine, Anderson, and Heap went to trial over the "Ulysses" questionable content. John Quinn, a lawyer and well-known patron of modernist art, defended them at the trial, ultimately losing. The editors paid a fifty-dollar fine each as result of the judgment. Anderson briefly considered folding the magazine after the trial.