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In “The Secret Agent” (1907), his novel about terrorism, Joseph Conrad describes seedy London neighborhoods; a cell of refugees and immigrants who plot revolution behind a dingy storefront ...
Unpredictability was the most predictable thing about the first few months of Trump 2.0. Having long understood the political ...
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 ...
All these subjects became fodder for books written by Korzeniowski, whose nom de plume was Joseph Conrad. Writing at the tail end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, Conrad ...
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World. By Maya Jasanoff. Penguin Press; 400 pages; $30. William Collins; £25. JOSEPH CONRAD was a phenomenon. Born to Polish parents in 1857 in a part of ...
By Maya Jasanoff The artist’s new film closely follows the plot of Joseph Conrad’s 1907 novel, but transposes the story to Portugal in 1975, after that country’s dictatorship fell.
An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. The extraordinary and uncommonly influential literary career of Joseph Conrad began ...
Joseph Conrad died a century ago, age 66, on Aug. 3. He had a Polish background and 20 years’ experience at sea that were ...