Picture this: A timid, would-be mariner arrives in a crowded New England whaling port — and winds up sharing a bed with a nearly naked, heavily tattooed, oddly coiffed reputed cannibal, the proud ...
MOBY-DICK is not only a very big book; it is also a peculiarly full and rich one, and from the very opening it conveys a sense of abundance, of high creative power, that exhilarates and enlarges the ...
As an environmental historian and scholar of the 19th century, I spend a lot of time thinking about how the past can help us confront our current crises – especially climate change. And there’s a lot ...
MOBY DICK; or, The Whale, 2022, dir. Wu Tsang, prod. Schauspielhaus Zürich (Design Pics Inc / Alamy Stock Footage, courtesy the Shed) “Call me Ishmael” — the narrator’s first utterance in Moby-Dick — ...
As an environmental historian and scholar of the 19th century, I spend a lot of time thinking about how the past can help us confront our current crises – especially climate change. And there’s a lot ...
It is my good fortune that no teacher ever assigned “Moby-Dick” while I was in school. I'm only now reading Herman Melville's masterpiece and regularly feeling gratitude to my teachers for not ...
(Alas, the 17 tracks aren’t yet available on Spotify or Apple Music, but let’s hope they land Earth-side soon. In the meantime, there is a teaser video on the musician’s Instagram account.) The set ...
Dead Puppet Society’s entertaining space opera based on Moby Dick doesn’t have a white whale, but there is a scary white entity out in space where nobody can hear you scream, writes Phil Brown. So we ...
‘Moby-Dick’ inspired the Warner Brothers film starring Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab – and perhaps can inspire readers today amid the climate crisis. Fox Photos/Hulton Archive via Getty Images As an ...
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