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 ...

The classic book Moby Dick features an enraged, giant white whale that rams and sinks a ship – and four terrified gals and their captain thought they were going to share the same fate when ferocious ...

“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 ...

Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is certainly one of the greatest works of literature in English or any other language. It gives up more meaning on every reading. And Moby Dick seems to be in the news a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...