Joseph Conrad
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The Horror, the Humor February 27, 2025
Last year, in honor of the 125th anniversary of its publication and the centenary of it’s author’s death, I decided to reread Heart of Darkness. I went in search of the copy I was sure was buried somewhere in my living-room library. I looked first fo...
The Dark Heart of Joseph Conrad September 03, 2024
Only once, in four decades before the mast of journalism, has an editor ever asked me to go anywhere in the world that I chose and damn (or at least file) the expense. A newspaper’s weekend magazine planned a special issue on literary travels and nee...
Joseph Conrad Uncensored July 30, 2024
Utter it softly, but with a few rare exceptions the moral arbiters of our age have still failed to come for that master of realist storytelling tinged with philosophical digression, Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), who died one hundred years ago this Augus...
