On a recent cold winter’s afternoon, the faithful gathered at the high altar of literary devotion to hear the gospel preached by a pious soul. Congregants filled the seats of the tabernacle and ringed ...

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" ...

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SALEM — “Moby-Dick” has the most famous opening sentence in American literature: “Call me Ishmael.” That’s it, but what a lot gets packed into those three words. Now that sentence can make a further ...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) — Fans of Herman Melville’s famous novel “Moby-Dick” have a weekend of events to look forward to. The New Bedford Whaling Museum’s 29th annual “Moby-Dick” marathon will take ...

If Herman Melville were alive to witness the 170th birthday of his novel "Moby Dick" on Oct. 18, he would be genuinely surprised if anyone noticed. Although enshrined in the pantheon of great American ...

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 ...