In 2015, a San Diego rare book collector made literary headlines with the Christie’s auction of letters, photos and other memorabilia by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee. The sale coincided ...

In 1874, Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, a 17-year-old orphan, persuaded his uncle to allow him to join the French merchant marine. After promising never to forget that “wherever you may sail, you ...

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 the ...

WHEN I was an undergraduate at Columbia I sometimes used to buy books at Scribner’s retail store, which was then on Fifth Avenue below Twenty-Second Street. A tall soil-spoken gentleman named Simpson ...

A library book that was last checked out when FDR was president was finally returned. Liam Hegarty, head of Reference at the Larchmont Public Library in New York, told Inside Edition Digital, “a woman ...

I was browsing some books today and I came across Joseph Conrad's novel, Nostromo. I wish I could say that I'm a student of great literature, and that I immediately recognized the title as Conrad's ...

It takes a perverse kind of ingenuity to make a boring book out of Joseph Conrad’s life. After all, it’s hard to think of a novelist whose career was as adventurous as Conrad’s, or whose work raises ...

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 ...