Moby Dick's bills itself as an "everything" type business: "clothing, souvenirs, beach stuff, toys. It is going to be a ...

In 2026 I am taking a measured approach to rereading Moby-Dick, flinging my harpoon at one chapter per day. This means being ...

From "James" to "Demon Copperhead," literary retellings are having a moment. Xiaolu Guo joins the ranks with her latest ...

North Sun” may be read as a grim adventure story based on historical whaling accounts or a symbol of modern-day violence ...

Stephen King is the world's most famous horror writer, so when he calls another book a literary masterpiece, readers should ...

University of Florida researcher Dr. Rudolf Scheffrahn recently helped to discover a new termite species. It looks like Moby ...

My job is to help them move beyond their assumptions, in literature and everything else.

“The Melville boom,” the critic Van Wyck Brooks wrote in 1921, is “only a question of time.” By the 1930s the prediction had been borne out; after decades of neglect, “Moby-Dick” (1851) was widely ...

From Hollywood stars to toasted sandwiches, Moby Dick’s closure marks the loss of a cultural anchor in Youghal Kevin and Bríd Linehan have decided to berth the ship following over 30 years of manning ...

The New Bedford Whaling Museum is hosting its 30th annual marathon reading of "Moby-Dick." The live reading of the novel begins at noon on Saturday, Jan. 3. The reading takes about 25 hours, and is ...

The New Bedford Whaling Museum will kick off its 30th annual Moby-Dick Marathon weekend with the Melville Scholars’ Dinner & Lecture on Jan. 2, in the museum’s Harbor View Gallery, according to a ...