PHILIP HOARE: I think it's a really good way of getting it back into the mainstream because this is the greatest American novel but it's so unread. SIEGEL: That's writer Philip Hoare. He's nearly as ...

FARGO - Talk about a whale of a book. Starting this month, the Fargo, West Fargo and Moorhead public libraries and Plains Art Museum kicked off the "Three Communities, Two Books, One Art Exhibit" ...

The New Bedford Whaling Museum is launching its first Moby-Dick Book Club, a free virtual series exploring Herman Melville’s iconic novel. The three-part series, moderated by Marina Wells, assistant ...

ALBANY -- Amy Halloran likes her Moby Dick served up la carte. “My family reads from it constantly, like a Bible. We don’t read it linearly, but just randomly. We read chapters and verses,” the ...

A detail of a 1960s 'Moby-Dick' book cover. People still have things to say about "Moby-Dick," Herman Melville's 1851 novel about Captain Ahab's obsessive and dangerous hunt for a great white whale.

It's sure to be a whale of an event for a whale of a tale. To celebrate Sag Harbor's rich tradition of art, literature, sailing and whaling, Canio's Books presents the 2021 edition of its long-running ...

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Some of you may have heard: We're doing a book group for "Moby-Dick." Our shelter-in-place era felt like as good a time as any to wrangle with Herman Melville's epic. I reached out to poet and ...

Spinner Publications announces the release of a new book, After Moby-Dick: An Anthology of New Poetry, edited by Elizabeth Schultz and Kylan Rice. To celebrate its release, there will be two “Meet the ...

Sorry. This is what happens when you’re reading “Moby-Dick.” You start saying “ahoy” and “avast” and “thar she blows” in front of people who have no idea why you’re talking like Popeye. But I’m ...

Along with so many, I was first subjected to “Moby-Dick” when I was still a teenager, being forced to read it as part of an American literature survey course. I was not a fan of it– I certainly could ...

“By its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe,” says Ishmael, in Chapter 42 of Herman Melville’s masterpiece. “It” is whiteness—the color of Moby-Dick, an ...