Starting Monday: Join Edwin Frank for His Seminar on Joseph Conrad

Plus our "Drama Queens" series from Daniel Mendelsohn ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

Starting This Monday! Four weekly sessions beginning Monday, October 6, 2025, 7 PM EDT 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. Register for Joseph Conrad   Also register for our final seminar in this series   H.G. Wells and Ursula K. Le Guin The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The Dispossessed Three sessions, starting Monday, November 3, 2025 Register for Wells / Le Guin     Also Available: Daniel Mendelsohn’s “Drama Queens” Daniel Mendelsohn, Editor-at-Large of The New York Review of Books, returns later this fall with a series of seminars on great literary heroines.    The Odyssey You 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. Register for The Odyssey   Greek Tragedy Agamemnon, Electra, Hecuba, and Trojan Women Three sessions, starting Wednesday, November 5, 2025 Register for Greek Tragedies   Madame Bovary and Italian Opera  Madame Bovary, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Traviata, and Madame Butterfly Three sessions, starting Wednesday, January 7, 2026 Register for Operas   Twentieth-Century Theater  Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Edward Albee Four sessions, starting Wednesday, January 28, 2026 Register for Twentieth-Century Theater     Politics   Literature   Arts   Ideas You are receiving this message because you signed up for e-mail newsletters from The New York Review. Update your preferences View in browser The New York Review of Books 207 East 32nd Street, New York, NY 10016-6305   Preferences  |  Unsubscribe