Current Reviews

2024: 49.2

• Patricia Pye on John G. Peters, Silence, Space and Absence in Conrad’s Works: Western and Non-Western Worlds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
• Robert Hampson on Debra Romanick Baldwin (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad (Routledge, 2024).

2024: 49.1

• Gene M. Moore on Roger Osborne (ed.) with Hugh Epstein, Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard,  (Cambridge University Press, 2023). NEW
• Sylwia Janina Wojciechowska on Alexia Hannis, The Discerning Narrator. Conrad, Aristotle, and Modernity  (University of Toronto Press, 2023).

2023: 48.2

• Hugh Epstein on Robert Hampson and Véronique Pauly (eds). The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe. (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022).

2023: 48.1

• Anthony Fothergill on Allan H. Simmons and Michael Foster (eds.) with Owen Knowles, A Set of Six, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). NEW
• Susan Zhang Maginn on David J. Supino, Joseph Conrad: A Bibliographical Catalogue of Editions to 1930 (Liverpool University Press, 2022).

2022: 47.2

• Richard Niland on John G. Peters (ed.) The Secret Sharer and Other Stories, (Norton, 2015); D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke (ed.) Heart of Darkness, (Broadview Press, 2020).

2022: 47.1

• Paul Skinner on Jeremy Hawthorn (ed.) with Max Saunders, The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story. The Nature of a Crime, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
• Hugh Epstein on Johan Warodell, Conrad’s Decentered Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

2021: 46.2

• Richard J. Hand on John G. Peters (ed.) Conrad’s Drama: Contemporary Reviews and Observations (Brill Rodopi 2019).

2021: 46.1

• Jay Parker on Robert Hampson, Joseph Conrad. Critical Lives. (Reaktion Books, 2020).
• Richard Niland on Jean M. Szczypien, “Sailing towards Poland” with Joseph Conrad. (Peter Lang, 2017).
• Anthony Fothergill on Kim Salmons, Food in the Novels of Joseph Conrad: Eating as Narrative (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

2020: 45.1

• William Atkinson on Hugh Epstein, Hardy, Conrad and the Senses. (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).
• Rachel J Fenton on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, adapted by Peter Kuper, foreword by Maya Jasanoff (W.W. Norton, 2020)

2019: 44.2

• Hugh Epstein on Alexandre Fachard and J. H. Stape (eds.) The Rover, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
• Andrew Purssell on Laurence Davies (ed.) The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

2019: 44.1

• Richard Niland on Mark D. Larabee ed., The Historian’s Heart of Darkness: Reading Conrad’s Masterpiece as Social and Cultural History (Praeger, 2018); John G. Peters ed., Heart of Darkness (Broadview Editions, 2018); Owen Knowles and Allan H. Simmons eds., Heart of Darkness (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

2018: 43.1

• Hugh Epstein on John G. Peters and Jakob Lothe (ed.), J. Hillis Miller Reading Conrad (Ohio State University Press, 2017).
• Jeremy Hawthorn on Helen Chambers, Conrad's Reading: Space, Time, Networks (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
• Yael Levin on Nidesh Lawtoo, Conrad’s Shadow: Catastrophe, Mimesis, Theory. (East Lansing: Michigan University Press, 2016)
• Debra Romanick Baldwin on Allan H. Simmons (ed.), The Nigger of the “Narcissus” Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

2017: 42.2

• Keith Carabine on Maya Jasanoff, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World, (London and Glasgow: William Collins, 2017)
• David Mulry on Richard Niland (ed.), Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent, Norton Critical Edition (London and New York: W. W. Norton, 2017)

2017: 42.1

• Peter Lancelot Mallios on J. H. Stape and Alexandre Fachard (eds.), Victory, Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
• Hugh Epstein on Katherine Isobel Baxter and Robert Hampson (eds.), Conrad and Language (Edinburgh University Press, 2016)
• Jeremy Hawthorn on Werner Senn, Conrad’s Narrative Voice: Stylistic Aspects of His Fiction. Conrad Studies 10. (Brill Rodopi, 2017)

2016: 41.2

• Richard Niland on Allan H. Simmons (ed.), An Outcast of the Islands, Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
• Gene M. Moore on Andrew Glazzard, Conrad’s Popular Fictions: Secret Histories and Sensational Novels (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
• Hugh Epstein on Eben Venter, Trencherman, translated from Afrikaans by Luke Stubbs (Scribe, 2016)

2016: 41.1

• Alexandra Peat on Robert Burden, Travel, Modernism and Modernity (Ashgate, 2015)
• Véronique Pauly on J. H. Stape and John G. Peters (eds.), Conrad’s “The Duel”: Sources/Text (Brill/Rodopi, 2015)
• Allan H. Simmons on Owen Knowles, A Conrad Chronology, Second Edition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
• Gene M. Moore on Andrew Francis, Culture and Commerce in Conrad’s Asian Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
• Andrew Glazzard on Linda Dryden, Joseph Conrad and H.G. Wells: The Fin-de-Siècle Literary Scene (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)

2015: 40.2

• Stephen Ross on Outposts of Progress: Joseph Conrad, Modernism and Post-colonialism (UCT Press, 2015), eds. Gail Fincham, Jeremy Hawthorn, and Jakob Lothe
• Michael John DiSanto on Richard Ruppel, A Political Genealogy of Joseph Conrad (Lexington Books, 2015)
• Andrew Glazzard on John G. Peters, Joseph Conrad's Critical Reception (Cambridge University Press, 2013)

2015: 40.1

• Jeremy Hawthorn on The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (Cambridge University Press, 2015), ed. J. H. Stape
• Linda Dryden on A Historical Guide to Joseph Conrad (Oxford University Press, 2010), ed. John G. Peters
• Hugh Epstein on William Freedman, Joseph Conrad and the Anxiety of Knowledge (University of South Carolina Press, 2014)
• Justin Tonra on The Shadow-Line: A Confession (Cambridge University Press, 2013), ed. J. H. Stape and Allan H. Simmons, with an Introduction by Owen Knowles

2014: 39.2

• Jeremy Hawthorn on Alan H. Goldman, Philosophy and the Novel (Oxford University Press, 2013)

2014: 39.1

• Jesse Oak Taylor on Thomas Strychacz, Dangerous Masculinities: Conrad, Hemingway, Lawrence (University Press of Florida, 2008)
• Johan Warodell on Robert Hampson, Conrad's Secrets (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)

2013: 38.2

• Peter Lancelot Mallios on Joseph Conrad: Contemporary Reviews (Cambridge University Press, 2012), ed. Allan H. Simmons, John G. Peters, and J. H. Stape

2013: 38.1

• John Lester on Lord Jim (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Conrad's 'Lord Jim': A Transcription of the Manuscript (Rodopi, 2011), ed. J. H. Stape and Ernest W. Sullivan II

2012: 37.1

• Ellie Stedall on Hearts of Darkness: Melville, Conrad and Narratives of Oppression (MStudio, 2010), and Secret Sharers: Melville, Conrad and Narratives of the Real (MStudio, 2011)
• Peter Mallios on Richard Niland, Conrad and History (Oxford Unversity Press, 2010)

2011: 36.1

• Richard Niland on Last Essays, ed. Harold Ray Stevens and J. H. Stape (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
• Mark Conroy on Peter Mallios, Our Conrad: Constituting American Modernity (Stanford University Press, 2010)
• Andrew Francis on Tarik O'Regan's and Tom Phillips's opera Heart of Darkness (2011), world premiere at The Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
• Mario Curreli on Joseph Conrad, Suspense, ed. Gene M. Moore (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
• John Lyon on Joseph Conrad, Youth, Heart of Darkness, The End of the Tether, ed. Owen Knowles (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
• Andrew Francis on Chantal Akerman's film La Folie Almayer (2011)
• A. M. Purssell on Katherine Isobel Baxter, Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance (Ashgate, 2010)
• Frances Wilson on David Miller, Today (Atlantic Books, 2011)
• J. H. Stape on Tadeusz Bobrowski, A Memoir of My Life, translated and introduced by Addison Bross (Columbia University Press, 2008)
• John Lester on Christopher Scoble, Letters from Bishopsbourne: Three Writers in an English Village (Cheltenham, BBM, 2010)
• Hugh Epstein on Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Secret History of Costaguana, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010)
• Andrew Francis on Heart of Darkness: A Graphic Novel, adapted by David Zane Mairowitz and illustrated by Catherine Anyango (SelfMadeHero, 2010)

2010: 35.1

• Jeremy Hawthorn on Joseph A. Kestner, Masculinities in British Adventure Fiction, 1880�1915 (Ashgate, 2010)
• Hugh Epstein on Michael John DiSanto. Under Conrad's Eyes: The Novel as Criticism (Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009)
• Ludwig Schnauder on Victory: The Play and Reviews, edited by Richard J. Hand (Rodopi, 2009)
• Jeremy Hawthorn on Joseph Conrad in Context, edited by Allan H. Simmons (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

2009: 34.1

• J. H. Stape on Mary Ann Gillies. The Professional Literary Agent in Britain, 1880-1920. (University of Toronto Press, 2007)
• Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan on Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad's Novels by Yael Levine (Palgrave, 2008)
• David Miller on Conrad in the Public Eye: Biography / Criticism / Publicity, edited by John G. Peters (Editions Rodopi, 2008)
• Jakob Lothe on Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts, edited by Katherine Isobel Baxter and Richard J. Hand (Ashgate, 2009)
• John Lester on Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad: Writers of Transition, edited by Linda Dryden, Stephen Arata, and Eric Massie (Texas Tech University Press, 2009)
• Hugh Epstein on Polyphony in Fiction: A Stylistic Analysis of Middlemarch, Nostromo, and Herzog by Masayuki Teranishi (Peter Lang, 2008)
• John G. Peters on Keith Carabine, ed., Lives of Victorian Literary Figures Part VII: Joseph Conrad:Joseph Conrad, Henry Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling by their Contemporaries. 3 vols. Series Editor: Ralph Pite (Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2009)
• Richard Niland on A Personal Record, edited by Zdzisław Najder and J. H. Stape (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
• Helen Baron on 'Twixt Land and Sea, edited by J. A. Berthoud, Laura L. Davis, and S. W. Reid (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
• A. M. Purssell on Conrad's Eastern Vision: A Vain and Floating Appearance by Agnes Swee Kim Yeow (Palgrave, 2008)

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