It took many decades for me to perceive that weird and queer are synonyms, at least of a kind: for no word in English is ever truly the real equivalent of another. This was, and is, an ...

America's got talent. It's also got scenery, history and a national anthem no one can sing. Those are just some of the things we celebrate, each time July 4 rolls around. But there's one thing we ...

Beloved author James Rebanks takes a hiatus from his farm in the Lake District for a sojourn on a far-flung island among the “duck women.” ...

At 6 feet 7 inches tall, Charles Olson was somewhat larger than life in appearance. The Worcester-born poet’s talents were ...

Tower Theatre Company presents Moby Dick in Stoke Newington from July 2 to 6, blending music, movement, and myth.

World had a fascinating, super, soaraway exclusive on recently deceased Portadown loyalist Muriel Gibson. Which meant that ...

IMDb users’ votes have determined the best adventure movies ever made, which include films like Avengers: Endgame, Interstellar, and Spirited Away.

One of the only unambiguous extended pleasures I experienced in 2020 was that of reading all five volumes of “The Cazalet Chronicles,” by Elizabeth Jane Howard, back to back. “Sunlight refurbished the ...

The biologist at the center of Maria Reva’s metafictional “Endling” prefers snails to the company of humans.

Review: ‘Moby-Dick,’ the Opera, Cuts the Blubber Streamlining Melville’s sprawling novel, Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s moody, monochromatic 2010 adaptation has come to the Metropolitan Opera.

Based on Herman Melville’s 1851 novel, the opera delivers an economical and resolute retelling of the fateful tale of the Pequod, a ship in pursuit of a vengeful white whale.

When Leonard Foglia was invited to direct an opera based on Herman Melville’s masterpiece about a white whale, his first reaction was: “Moby-Dick. That’s great!” ...