Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Illustrated by Matt Kish, Tin House Books, 200 pages Three years ago, self-taught artist Matt Kish and indie publisher Tin House released a sumptuous illustrated ...

Nikesha Breeze, A Mutiny of Morning: Reclaiming the Black Body from Heart of Darkness (all photos Rachel Harris-Huffman/Hyperallergic) A Mutiny of Morning grew out of ...

Literature professor Karen Swallow Prior is editor of a new series of classic novels reprinted with questions and commentary to guide Christian reflection and discussion on the material. The first two ...

Joseph Conrad had a long career as a merchant mariner before he ever ventured to write fiction. Born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857 to Polish parents in Ukraine, his journeys to the far ...

"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 ...

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.

A century after his death in 1924, the Polish-born English novelist Joseph Conrad remains a subject of debate among his biographers over the extent to which he did, or did not, hate Jews. “Not ...