Literature can often place a current dilemma in perspective. To understand the crisis between the United States and Iraq, Americans would do well to refer to Herman Melville's "Moby Dick." The ...

In particular, Captain Ahab is so brilliantly written, so powerfully complex that his obsession with Moby Dick reads as poetic even when it welcomes the downfall of every other beloved crew member.

Captain H. E. Raabe, 73, an oldtime slave-&-ebony trader in the Solomon Islands, who once skippered a ship with Author Jack London in the crew, had set out by himself in the 40-ft. powered yawl ...

President Bush and Karl Rove: First met when Rove was 22. by Mark Silva Karl Rove’s departure from the Bush administration isn’t likely to quiet a controversy pitting Democratic congres… ...

Geeg Wiles, who is from North Adams, has traveled with Captain Ahab, a 3-foot, 40-pound wooden statue of a fisherman, for the last 22 years. He runs Ahab’s Adventures, where he chronicles his ...

The title role in Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick is played by a white sperm whale that got one of Captain Ahab's legs—and eventually got the whole of him. Moby Dick himself escaped ...