... of that experience, and pays homage to other writers who shared it - F Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, Jack London and Joseph Conrad. Journey By Yehudi Menuhin Pimlico £l4 (UK) 479 pp BORN in New York in 1916 of Russian Jewish parents, Yehudi Menuhin made ...

... Apocalypse Now Redux, which opens next Friday at Dublin's IFC and Cork's Kino cinemas. Inspired - like Apocalypse Now - by Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it follows long-haul truck driver Gerard Carey on the last leg of a trip from Genoa out of Cherbourg ...

... taunts Willard: How do they smell to you, soldier? Coppola's urge to film Apocalypse Now was triggered by the words of Joseph Conrad's original Kurtz in the novella Heart of Darkness: I hate the stench of a lie. Claims Coppola: The fact that a culture ...