As It Happens Massachusetts court's mystery portrait ID'd as Herman Melville's father-in-law Boston courthouse painting depicts Lemuel Shaw, who served as chief justice from 1830 until 1860 ...

Among the leading figures to visit Eretz Yisrael, which included Mark Twain, was Herman Melville. Melville portrait, among the 19th century travelers to the Promised Land.

Melville by the Day I cannot think of another work of fiction that says more about why biographies are written and what they portend than Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel’s ‘Dayswork: A Novel.’ ...

Happy birthday, Herman Melville! On Aug. 1, 1819, the author who painstakingly crafted “Moby-Dick” came into the world — and, in so many ways, he’s never left.