A guest follows along during the 25-hour-long reading of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; or, the Whale at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts. Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty ...

The electronic music icon shared a video to social media yesterday (Monday January 26), responding to the killing of Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis last week. On Saturday morning, an United ...

The producer offered advice on how to respond following the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. By Katie Bain Moby posted a statement to social media on Monday (Jan. 26) offering advice on how ...

The iconic record producer and artist is set to perform an open-air show at London’s Old Royal Naval College – A UNESCO World Heritage site – on August 15. It comes as part of the ongoing Labyrinth On ...

Before hitting the high seas on a quest for the most renowned whale in literature, before introducing the monomaniacal Captain Ahab, Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” begins on the streets of New Bedford.

Call me disappointed. It is not impossible to adapt or reimagine “Moby-Dick.” Herman Melville’s narrative is the polar epic of modern consciousness: on the one extreme, Ishmael’s adrift apathy, that ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Guo’s recasting of Ishmaelle is no exception. Orphaned as a teenager in an impoverished fishing village in Kent, ...

“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 ...

The New Bedford Whaling Museum's 30th annual reading of "Moby-Dick" kicks off on Jan. 3. (Courtesy New Bedford Whaling Museum) "Call me Ishmael” — one of the most famous first lines in literary ...

A new termite species, Cryptotermes mobydicki, was discovered in South America by an international research team. The termite was named for its resemblance to the white sperm whale from Herman ...

WHAT IT'S ABOUT Kate Winslet makes her directorial debut in "Goodbye June," bringing a screenplay by her son Joe Anders to the screen. It's a small-scale family drama, set around Christmas, and ...

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