By Peter Hummers The writer Joseph Conrad wasn’t credited on Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece ‘Apocalypse Now,’ but it wouldn’t have been made without Conrad’s 1899 novella ‘Heart of ...

Illiberalism in the country is alive and well. By Jaroslaw Kuisz and Karolina Wigura Maya Jasanoff’s book, “The Dawn Watch,” uses Conrad’s work to tell a story of globalization, imperialism and ...

Joseph Conrad died a century ago, age 66, on Aug. 3. He had a Polish background and 20 years’ experience at sea that were unique in English literature. As the son of a failed revolutionary he’d been ...

125 years after it was first serialized in three installments in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1899, Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness continues to be widely read and to be scrutinized by teachers, ...

Books Art of Darkness: Matt Kish Illustrates Conrad's Classic What’s stunning about Matt Kish’s illustrations for Heart of Darkness — one for every page of Joseph Conrad’s text — is how sunny they are ...

In 2015, a San Diego rare book collector made literary headlines with the Christie’s auction of letters, photos and other memorabilia by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee. The sale coincided ...

It takes a perverse kind of ingenuity to make a boring book out of Joseph Conrad’s life. After all, it’s hard to think of a novelist whose career was as adventurous as Conrad’s, or whose work raises ...

Joseph Daniel Conrad, 90, passed away October 16, 2015, in St. Joseph Medical Center. Born in Fleetwood, he was a son of the late Joseph B. and Jennie R. (Heffner) Conrad. Joseph graduated with the ...