Once the whaling capital of the world, New Bedford remembers Herman Melville’s literary masterpiece with an annual reading ...

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" ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Leonard Foglia was invited to direct an opera based on Herman Melville’s masterpiece about a white whale, his first reaction was: “Moby-Dick. That’s great!” “Then I ran to a used bookstore and ...

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 ...

When Leonard Foglia was invited to direct an opera based on Herman Melville’s masterpiece about a white whale, his first reaction was: “Moby-Dick. That’s great!” “Then I ran to a used bookstore and ...

“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 ...