When I want adventure, I grab my copy of “Moby Dick.” A flip to a random page, and suddenly I’m on the wooden deck of the whale ship Pequod, cresting and falling somewhere between the blue-gray waves ...

For the first time, a Colorado high school is staging Robert Lawson’s “The Passage,” a thrilling and challenging modern re-imagining of Herman Melville’s singular novel, “Moby Dick.” It will be ...

In “Myth of the Whale” (Oct. 31), you omitted the etymology of the ship’s name in Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick,” the Pequod. Melville derived the ship’s name from the Indian tribe, the Pequods or ...

Every semester we pay an inordinate amount of money for our textbooks, and every semester we fork over an equally ridiculous quantity of dough for those photocopies bound in heinously bright paper ...