Thierry Michel's "Congo River, Beyond Darkness" plunges the viewer into a two-hour trek up the 2,500-mile Congo river from its mouth to its distant source. This exploration of post-colonial Africa ...

A journey from the mouth to the source of the Congo, the world’s greatest river basin. The viewer encounters the centuries-old mythology of the river and the legendary fi gures who made history in the ...

Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ - the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Apocalypse Now’ - is one of the most celebrated literary works of all time, though now increasingly ...

THE POISONWOOD BIBLE By Barbara Kingsolver HarperFlamingo, 546 pages, $26 In 1890 Joseph Conrad traveled to the Congo in the employ of a Belgian trading company, under contract as a steamboat pilot… ...

Joseph Conrad’s classic novella “Heart of Darkness” is being adapted into an animated feature, with Michael Sheen, James Norton and Bill Nighy having already lent their voices. The project ...