Illiberalism in the country is alive and well. By Jaroslaw Kuisz and Karolina Wigura Maya Jasanoff’s book, “The Dawn Watch,” uses Conrad’s work to tell a story of globalization, imperialism and ...

In a quiet corner of the University of Notre Dame’s main library stands a bust of Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, better known by his pen name Joseph Conrad. On the base of the bust is an ...

Mr. Conrad has no ideas, but he has a point of view, a “world”; it can hardly be defined, but it pervades his work and is unmistakable. —T. S. Eliot, “Kipling Redivivus” He [James] had a mind so fine ...

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 in ...

For me, no novel provides a better account of what we humans are up against in our pursuit of the true and the good than Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim (1900). It does this alongside Conrad’s other great ...

To the newest generation of adult readers the dawn of a literary light is a rare experience. It is as if the courses of our literature were Arctic in their slowness, as if the day came at long ...