Ten years later I regretted my ways, and I removed those spines from up high. And so began my second reading of Moby-Dick, and I was quickly embarrassed for that Junior back in college. You cannot ...

The film "In the Heart of the Sea" depicts the actual whale attack that Herman Melville drew inspiration from when writing ...

We are a nation that just can’t quit Moby-Dick. In a new series of paintings now on view at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, painter Christopher Volpe shows why. He explores how Herman Melville’s dark ...

As an environmental historian and scholar of the 19th century, I spend a lot of time thinking about how the past can help us confront our current crises – especially climate change. And there’s a lot ...

When Richard Melville Hall was born in 1965, he had an impressive family legacy — his great-great-great-great-uncle was none other than Herman Melville, the famous author of Moby Dick, which ...

‘Moby-Dick’ inspired the Warner Brothers film starring Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab – and perhaps can inspire readers today amid the climate crisis. Fox Photos/Hulton Archive via Getty Images As an ...