For the last 30 years, fans of Herman Melville's 1851 novel have gathered for a live, 25-hour reading of the whole book.

In 2026 I am taking a measured approach to rereading Moby-Dick, flinging my harpoon at one chapter per day. This means being ...

When Leonard Foglia was invited to direct an opera based on Herman Melville’s masterpiece about a white whale, his first reaction was: “Moby-Dick. That’s great!” “Then I ran to a used bookstore and ...

University of Florida researcher Dr. Rudolf Scheffrahn recently helped to discover a new termite species. It looks like Moby Dick.

Condensing Melville’s vast and discursive work into a three-hour opera may have seemed as foolish as Captain Ahab’s increasingly desperate voyage to find the whale that maimed him, but Heggie and ...

NEW BEDFORD -- As the downtown area prepares for the annual "Moby-Dick" Marathon at the New Bedford Whaling Museum on Saturday, Jan 4, Aviary Books is getting into the spirit with their first Melville ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Herman Melville was not a man for his time. And his most famous work, the epic adventure novel Moby-Dick. Ironically, becoming a noted, revered and beloved author while he was ...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) — Fans of Herman Melville’s famous novel “Moby-Dick” have a weekend of events to look forward to. The New Bedford Whaling Museum’s 29th annual “Moby-Dick” marathon will take ...

NEW BEDFORD – The Portuguese Moby-Dick Mini-Marathon will return to New Bedford Whaling Museum’s Cook Memorial Theater on Saturday, Jan. 4, but this time around it promises to deliver an even more ...

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, ...

Stephen King is the world's most famous horror writer, so when he calls another book a literary masterpiece, readers should ...