Even as his style has become even more ornate, the subjects he’s been tackling feel increasingly political. See: his latest, ...

“I had forgotten the skepticism of which I was so proud,” he concludes. “I had abandoned myself to darkness, and darkness ruled over me.” Caricature, Not Character. For all his ...

125 years after it was first serialized in three installments in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1899, Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness continues to be widely read and to be scrutinized by ...

Conrad's great novel The Heart Of Darkness, set in the Congo, has at its grim centre the evil Mr Kurtz, a man who lives amid the horrors of his own creation. The inspiration behind the movie ...

Alluding to the ever-current lessons of Conrad, they added that indifference, rather than hatred, was the ultimate corruption, placing colonizers at the “heart of darkness.” Few novelists have ...

Katrin Cartlidge also stars as her sister-in-law and nurse, the brief flicker of light in a world shrouded by human darkness. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, ...

Reality is a scary thing.” But so was Ubu’s music. “The emotion in ‘Heart of Darkness’ is desperation. We want to make the listener feel as if he is the narrator.” He named the band ...

Show more Professor Brian Cox continues his epic exploration of the universe with a journey into darkness. The centre of our galaxy is home to an invisible monster of unimaginable power – a ...