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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK — On Monday, the Metropolitan Opera presented the company premiere of Jake Heggie’s “Moby-Dick” — the composer’s 2010 ...

This year marks the hundred-and-seventy-fifth anniversary, or demisemiseptcentennial, of “Moby-Dick,” originally published in 1851. (Saving you the math.) Is it O.K. to have a “Moby-Dick” T-shirt for ...

The Berkshire County Historical Society will screen "The Sea Beast," a 1926 silent film adaptation of Herman Melville’s "Moby-Dick," on March 4 at the Beacon Cinema.

SALEM — “Moby-Dick” has the most famous opening sentence in American literature: “Call me Ishmael.” That’s it, but what a lot gets packed into those three words. Now that sentence can make a further ...

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 ...

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 ...

I just finished *** 25 hour Moby Dick marathon with my friends. It was one of the craziest things I've ever done in my life. That's Adam Aleksik, *** linguist and popular content creator who goes by ...

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 ...

As any smug copy editor will tell you, there’s a hyphen in the title of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, but no hyphen in the name of the whale itself. But why, you ask, surely this is insanity? The copy ...