Kasra Lang
@kasralang.bsky.social
Writer & Reader || Work in The Threepenny Review, LARB, The London Magazine || PhD at USC
News to me - would you recommend?
May 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
News to me - would you recommend?
The character of 'The Professor' (a bombmaker and the most disturbing of all Conrad's creations) is said to have inspired Ted Kaczynski––who persists in the public imagination today much more than anything from the immediate post-9/11 era.
January 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The character of 'The Professor' (a bombmaker and the most disturbing of all Conrad's creations) is said to have inspired Ted Kaczynski––who persists in the public imagination today much more than anything from the immediate post-9/11 era.
SB is such a wonderful writer. The rest of the Duke UP book 'Exile and Creativity' that this chapter comes from is also fantastic.
January 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
SB is such a wonderful writer. The rest of the Duke UP book 'Exile and Creativity' that this chapter comes from is also fantastic.
By contrast, Conrad felt he was always quarrying his English 'out of some dark pit'––compelling and accurate in a different way.
January 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
By contrast, Conrad felt he was always quarrying his English 'out of some dark pit'––compelling and accurate in a different way.