Before you read Peter Kuper's graphic novel version of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," take a moment to riff through its pages quickly, like you would a flipbook. That's the perfect introduction ...

Before you read Peter Kuper's graphic novel version of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," take a moment to riff through its pages quickly, like you would a flipbook. That's the perfect introduction ...

"A bloody racist." When African novelist Chinua Achebe summed up Joseph Conrad this way in 1975, it was like a bomb going off in the literary canon. Spurred by Achebe's brash assault, some critics ...

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, ...

Disclaimer: This is an archived article dated before Saturday 1 January 2022. As such, images and embedded content may be missing. In the heyday of British Imperialism, Blackwood's Magazine in ...

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 ...

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 ...

First, it’s a nostalgic thrill to see the book I held on the first reading. This one, pictured below, is a 1983 Penguin English Library paperback. The RRP on the back cover is $2.95. The front cover ...

Mistah Kurtz — he not dead. In this fictional alt-lit reboot of Heart of Darkness, novelist James Reich reconstructs the early life of one of world literature’s most haunting and enigmatic characters.