 Starting tomorrow! Four weekly sessions beginning Politics fascinated and appalled Joseph Conrad, the child of Polish revolutionaries and later a ship’s captain. For him, it was the defining blight of the modern world, whose dark peripheries he mapped in his greatest works, Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, and The Secret Agent. The second seminar in our Political Novel series will focus on these three novels as expressions of Conrad’s anti-political vision. Four one-hour sessions: October 6, 13*, 20, 27. All sessions will start at 7 PM EDT. Full members and auditors will have access to recordings of each session, which may be viewed after the live sessions conclude. *October 13 will meet early, from 5:00–6:00 PM EDT. Also register for our final seminar in this seriesH.G. Wells and Ursula K. Le GuinThe Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The Dispossessed Also Available: Daniel Mendelsohn’s “Drama Queens”Daniel Mendelsohn, Editor-at-Large of The New York Review of Books, returns with a series of seminars on great literary heroines.  The OdysseyYou may still purchase Auditor Memberships for Mendelsohn’s first series this fall, on his new translation of Homer’s Odyssey. Catch up by watching recordings of the first three sessions before the course resumes October 8. Greek TragedyAgamemnon, Electra, Hecuba, and Trojan Women Madame Bovary and Italian OperaMadame Bovary, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Traviata, and Madame Butterfly Twentieth-Century TheaterEugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Edward Albee  You are receiving this message because you signed up |
domingo, 5 de octubre de 2025
TOMORROW: Join Edwin Frank for His Seminar on Joseph Conrad
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