Moby-Dick fans from around the world are getting ready for their own grueling quest — a marathon reading of Herman Melville's classic. This weekend, the New Bedford Whaling Museum is holding its ...

Pick up Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) expecting the story of a mad one-legged captain chasing a white whale and you’ll get more than you bargained for.

In 1841, Herman Melville, then 21, set out on a whale ship from the Port of New Bedford. This past weekend, readers from all over read 10-minute sections of his classic, “Moby-Dick.” ...

Rereading passages of "Moby-Dick," I have no idea how my old English teacher once kept 20 hormonal teenagers from staging a mutiny of bawdy wisecracks. It helped, I suppose, that ours was a very ...

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 ...