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Jamie Q. Roberts

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Guide to the classics: Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim sees humanity’s darkness

Guide to the classics: Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim sees humanity’s darkness

Conrad suggests our sense of being good derives from our belonging – yet that to which we belong is not necessarily good.

21.08.2025 10

The Conversation

Jamie Q. Roberts

‘The true shadow of calamity’: Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim sees humanity’s darkness

‘The true shadow of calamity’: Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim sees humanity’s darkness

Conrad suggests our sense of being good derives from our belonging – yet that to which we belong is not necessarily good.

21.08.2025 9

The Conversation

Jamie Q. Roberts

Catch-22 : the great antiwar novel whose barbs still strike home, even in times of peace

‘Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts,’ Joseph Heller once said – ‘and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?’

16.01.2025 10

The Conversation

Jamie Q. Roberts