The New Bedford Whaling Museum will be hosting a Portuguese Moby-Dick Mini-Marathon, featuring simultaneous readings in three ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 first line in Herman Melville's Moby Dick has become distinctly and instantly recognizable since its publication in 1851. It's a line composed of only three words, yet those three words have had ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...