A recent gift of charcoal drawings depicting images from Herman Melville's classic "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale" to Northern Kentucky University means the school likely has the largest collection of art ...

Moussa Kone, illustrator and Harpune Verlag, publisher. "Etymology," 2012. (Courtesy Moussa Kone and Harpune Verlag. Photo by Kathy Tarantola/Peabody Essex Museum) Happy birthday, Herman Melville! On ...

For Bethany Collins, Herman Melville’s novel is rife with centuries-old political anxieties that still resonate today.

When Moby releases a new album, it could be anything from hardcore dance music to electro ballads about animal rights, or a 90-minute recording of the musician doing his ironing. Since his 1996 ...

Unlike some American high schoolers, Wu Tsang avoided reading “Moby-Dick” in English class. She didn’t discover Herman Melville’s novel until adulthood, and even that encounter was mediated: she ...