Despite these difficulties, Herman Melville read extensively on his own ... his descriptions of life out at sea were comprehensive and unflinchingly accurate. Melville was also able to communicate ...

Morgan Freeman has always been an avid reader, and there's one novel that's stuck with him since it introduced him to ...

Among the leading figures to visit Eretz Yisrael, which included Mark Twain, was Herman Melville ... the range of Jewish life in Eretz Yisrael that Melville presents in Clarel conspicuously ...

Richard Powers’s recent novels have traded complexity for preachiness, but his latest is an effective twist on AI panic.

On Saturday, October 19, the Friends of the Library is sponsoring a theatrical performance, which is free and open to the ...

49, Issue. 1, p. 116. Hamdan, Mohammed 2020. ‘Till we stand on the summit of yonder mountain’: literary geography and re-mapping place in Melville’s Typee. Comparative American Studies An ...

It’s hard to think that Coppola, who copped screenwriting credits on “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now,” wrote this line ...

Barry Moser, an illustrator and professor of art at Smith College, has works featured in a New York City exhibition honoring ...

This harrowing tale of survival inspired Herman Melville's Moby Dick ... it's hard not to think of Ang Lee's Life Of Pi. And harder not to see how In the Heart of the Sea pales in comparison.

MOBY -- BASED HERE IN NEW BEDFORD AND ALSO NANTUCKET CATHERINE MELVILLE HOADLEY, THE SISTER OF MOBY -- AUTHOR HERMAN MELVILLE ... TO BRING THIS HOUSE BACK TO LIFE HAS BEEN SUCH AN HONOR FOR ...

IT is the centennial year of "Billy Budd, Sailor," Herman Melville's last book, a novella. Melville wrote it in the last five years of his life, but it was published posthumously only in 1924. It is ...

Despite these difficulties, Herman Melville read extensively on his own ... his descriptions of life out at sea were comprehensive and unflinchingly accurate. Melville was also able to communicate ...