This reputation endured until the 100th anniversary of Melville’s birthday when American critics and authors revived his magnum opus. Illustration played a role. Case in point: Lakeside Press’s 1930 ...

Chris Hemsworth is soaked, standing on a ship, trying to steer through a storm, when he sees what appears to be a giant whale in the ocean waves. If the images shown in the trailer for In the Heart of ...

“I hope this whale stays here,” said the artist Wu Tsang on a recent afternoon in Venice. She pointed to a tiny marble whale that she had placed on the narrow stone walkway that divided the sea ...

Moby Dick crushes a whaleboat in an 1892 illustration by Augustus Burnham Shute via Wikimedia Commons. I re-read Herman Melville’s classic Moby-Dick every few years, and each time it speaks to me in ...

Sam Kelley, Chris Hemsworth and Edward Ashley in "In The Heart of The Sea." Jonathan Prime Presenting a “true” adventure about a giant whale that supposedly inspired “Moby-Dick” raises tsunami-high ...

The mention of “Moby Dick” might call to mind the image of a fearsome white whale, glittering harpoons and roiling waves. It may be surprising, then, that the set of “Moby Dick — Rehearsed,” performed ...

In Herman Melville’s iconic 1851 novel “Moby-Dick,” the crew of the Pequod stalks the titular whale for three years. The musical extravaganza “Moby-Dick,” which is in its world premiere by American ...

Paul Collins has become our literary historian. This week he was browsing old books on eBay and came across a first-edition Herman Melville, 1894 copy of the novel "Redburn." One of the images the ...

Composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer’s award-winning opera Moby-Dick will be broadcast on THIRTEEN’s Great Performances Friday, November 1, 2013 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), as ...

The artist known as Moby appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher Friday night, and when he wasn’t curiously helping host Bill Maher “detox” from President Donald Trump using ASMR, he was sharing what he ...