Joseph Conrad
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From George Orwell’s Isle of Jura to Willa Cather’s Nebraskan frontier … with travel restricted to the imagination, Henry Eliot picks the most memorable and beautiful literary locations
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4 out of 5 stars.British-Nigerian poet Femi Nylander uncovers the atrocities of a rogue French officer whose impact is still being felt today
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The times demand indulging in a spot of Pinter or Strauss, not listening to ministers insisting that all is well
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A conceptual adventure first embarked on in the 19th century has inspired daring fiction from authors including HG Wells, Kurt Vonnegut and Madeleine L’Engle
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From bucolic source to marshy lower reaches, London’s mighty river has inspired great writing
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One of Sweden’s most important and controversial postwar writers who aimed his fire at European imperialism
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4 out of 5 stars.Imitating the Dog interrogate their own staging of the controversial novella as well as its themes
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3 out of 5 stars.A story from a Somali pirate kicks off this outlandish comic critique of Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now
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In two contrasting stagings of the novel, one renders it ridiculous while the other confronts the debate head on
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For every glittering Hollywood project that hits cinemas, there’s a raft that never see the light of day. Here’s five of the most fascinating films you’ll never see
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The author and translator on the guilty pleasure of rereading Ian Fleming, the power of Tristram Shandy – and his childhood love for Just William
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Does it matter if authors make up their memoirs?
Jerome Boyd MaunsellJoseph Conrad invented a boat, HG Wells omitted his affairs. But does it matter if this imaginative licence reveals a different kind of truth, asks Jerome Boyd Maunsell
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From St Augustine’s philosophy to HG Wells’s science fiction, these are some of the best books about a subject that is both very familiar and very strange
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Maya Jasanoff brilliantly places Conrad as a pioneer of understanding the forces that shape the modern world
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What the critics thought of Sugar Money by Jane Harris; The Dawn Watch by Maya Jasanoff; and When They Go Low, We Go High by Philip Collins
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This brilliant study blends biography, lit crit and commentary on our times. Conrad’s life gave him a unique insight into ‘progress’, empire and global capitalism
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From financial crises to the threat of terrorism, the works of the Polish-British author display remarkable insight into an era, like ours, of elemental change in a globalised world
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