Now 175 years old, US author Herman Melville's classic is the ultimate tale of man v whale – but in fact, it questions why ...

A whale tells his story today, and we have two books of nonfiction. “Kill Ahab”: by Phil Adamo (Split Infinitive Books, ...

"Moby-Dick" is indelible in the literary imagination, and that beast-like whale has himself become a deep repository of assigned meaning and symbolism. The whale is the unforgiving power of nature.

Among all the weird creatures that may live in the murky waters of Buffalo Bayou, whales seem unlikely. But actor Phillip Hays, director Jacey Little and other members of Houston's Horse Head Theatre ...

Moby Dick was a whale, a very big whale. It is also a book, a very big book, written by Herman Melville and published in 1851. It was initially a commercial failure, this tale of Captain Ahab on a ...

The 7.5-foot-tall bronze artwork stands in the heart of historic New Bedford, the 19th-century whaling port that inspired the ...

San Francisco hosted a 25-hour ultra-endurance test last weekend. It wasn’t a feat of running or physical fitness, but of literary prowess: a non-stop reading of an infamously challenging and lengthy ...

“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 ...