Book Review: The Dawn Watch
/A fantastic new biography of Joseph Conrad follows him around in his travels and delves into the heart of his many books.
Read MoreSecond Glance: The Conrad Connection
/This picaresque classic by Colombian novelist Álvaro Mutis doubles as an extended valentine to the author of Heart of Darkness. Robert Latona revisits it.
Read MoreAbandonment, Richness, Surprise
/Impressionistic, idiosyncratic, unsubstantiated: Virginia Woolf's literary essays challenge us to rethink, not just our experience of reading, but our expectations of criticism itself.
Read MoreOn the Barricades with the Bourgeoisie
/Visionary novelist J.G. Ballard's penultimate book "Millennium People," about an outbreak of middle-class revolution and terrorism, has finally been published in the U.S.
Read MoreEverything United In Her
/It's a comfortable truism that the novels of Jane Austen are all things to all readers. But ... a life-instruction manual? From the OLM Archives, a review of A Jane Austen Education
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