With her stylish novel Call Me Ishmaelle, Xiaolu Guo both pays heed to the American classic and breaks out into something of ...

Morgan Freeman is one of the most recogisable actors in the world, but he also loves reading. He previously listed his top ...

The Metropolitan Opera premiered an expanded version of Jake Heggie’s 2010 adaptation, which had its East Coast premiere at ...

Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s 2010 adaptation of Melville’s unruly novel opens this week at the Metropolitan Opera.

Henry David Thoreau's Walden is one more book that echoes Joni Mitchell's artistic philosophy. This classic chronicles ...

Curator of the museum Philippa Wood believes people have taken bones as souvenirs, with 11 of its 44 vertebrae and much of ...

Oh, what a fascinating career: Brandon Jovanovich, operatic tenor from Billings, Montana, went from a cater waiter at the ...

And if you put aside any ambitions of making an opera that does justice to “Moby-Dick,” it largely succeeds. While the book is a teeming whirlpool of literary forms and styles, inventions and ...

“We had an E-350 white Ford Econoline van that we called the ‘fartbox,’ but also called ‘Moby-Dick’ after Leviathan came out,” he explained, adding, “The insides sort of smelled like the insides of ...

20, 2025 in New York. (Karen Almond/Met Opera via AP) When Leonard Foglia was invited to direct an opera based on Herman ...

The whale, known as Constable Moby or 'Mo', is a 58ft-long bull sperm that was famously referenced in the classic 1851 novel ...