You know who the X-Men are. Maybe you’ve been into comic books for a long time or you’re a newcomer or you only know from the movie franchise starring Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, and Ian McKellen. Regardless, you know who they are, and you may find yourself wanting to know […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.