Herman Melville

How a Mutiny on the Somers Changed America

“No case of the century, prior to the assassination of President Lincoln, aroused as much interest and passion.”

 
By Richard Snow  November 21, 2023
Hollywood

How 1950s Hollywood Tried (and Failed) to Make Literary Adaptations Big

By Foster Hirsch  November 3, 2023
Criticism

What Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” Tells Us About Memory Loss

By Dasha Kiper  March 23, 2023
The History of Literature

10 Essential Questions About Moby-Dick

By History of Literature  January 30, 2023
The Hub

10 literary classics that didn’t sell.

By Emily Temple  October 4, 2022
Friendship

On Friendship: Men in Love Who Aren’t (in Most Cases) Lovers

By Jonathan Howland  April 29, 2022
Criticism

On Melville, Mendacity, and Letting the Unknowable Find Its Way in Your Writing

By David Kirby  December 10, 2021
Literary History

Francine Prose on Her Encounters with the Literary Strange

By Francine Prose  November 29, 2021
The Hub

For $26K a month you can rent the hideously remodeled London house where Herman Melville once lived!

By Jonny Diamond  November 1, 2021
The Hub

Check out the original 1851 reviews of Moby-Dick.

By Book Marks  October 18, 2021
The Hub

Read Herman Melville’s embarrassingly short, typo-marred obituary.

By Dan Sheehan  September 28, 2021
The Hub

“The book is an abortion”: In which Herman Melville eviscerates a book about yachting.

By Jessie Gaynor  July 30, 2021
Baseball

Searching for Moby-Dick (and the Elusive Truths of America’s Pastime)

By Rick White  July 13, 2021
The Hub

British Library Publishing is rushing to print the sea shanty guide we need.

By Corinne Segal  January 15, 2021
The History of Literature

How Nathaniel Hawthorne Distinguished Between ‘Novels’ and ‘Romances’

By History of Literature  January 11, 2021
Lit Crit

A Brief History of Citational Fiction and the Literary Supercut

By Tom Comitta  November 5, 2020
horror films

Wonder or Horror? On the Dark Side of Our Reverence for Nature

By Tyler Malone  October 30, 2020
Architecture

Inside the Spare and Extravagant Homes of Six Iconic Writers

By Sam Lubell  October 28, 2020
Short Stories

43 of the Most Iconic Short Stories in the English Language

By Emily Temple  August 19, 2020
Essays

Can the Essay Still Surprise Us?

By Suzanne Conklin Akbari  August 14, 2020
The Hub

For your consideration: New fetishes from classic literature.

By Jessie Gaynor  July 14, 2020
Reading Lists

Lives Lived at Sea: A Reading List

By Lisa Alther  June 25, 2020
Criticism

Harold Bloom on Cormac McCarthy, True Heir to Melville and Faulkner

By Harold Bloom  October 16, 2019
Influences

Ocean Vuong: The 10 Books
I Needed to Write My Novel

By Ocean Vuong  October 1, 2019
Literary History

The Literal (and Figurative) Whiteness of
Moby Dick

By Gabrielle Bellot  August 1, 2019
Literary History

The Encyclopedic Genius of
Melville’s Masterpiece

By Suzanne Conklin Akbari  August 1, 2019
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