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 ...

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.

"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 ...

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 ...