We are a nation that just can’t quit Moby-Dick. In a new series of paintings now on view at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, painter Christopher Volpe shows why. He explores how Herman Melville’s dark ...

“In the Heart of the Sea,” starring Chris Hemsworth, is based on Nathaniel Philbrick’s book, which details a whale hunt that inspired Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick.” The film opens Friday. Courtesy of ...

“The Melville boom,” the critic Van Wyck Brooks wrote in 1921, is “only a question of time.” By the 1930s the prediction had been borne out; after decades of neglect, “Moby-Dick” (1851) was widely ...

‘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 ...

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 ...