My daughter was looking over the syllabus from a college English class that she had just started, and she was distraught over the thought of having to make an in-class critique of another student’s writing. “I’m just not good at that sort of thing!” she despaired. I tried to allay […]
The World of the End Ofir Touché Gafla Translated from the Hebrew by Mitch Ginsburg Tor Books English Edition: June 25, 2013 ISBN 978-0-7653-3356-8 If there is any “location” that has been written about more than any other, it would be the place that exists (or doesn’t) once our lives […]
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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.