Herman Melville

Travel with a classic touch, and a picnic blanket, to Massachusetts' Tanglewood

2012-07-12 13:24:00

Lenox, Mass. — Travelers come to the Berkshires in western Massachusetts for the mountains and the museums, the camping and the theater, the just-off-the-boil summer days that fade into cool evenings and single-blanket nights. But most of all they...

88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress

2012-07-04 16:36:52

14 eclectic, bookish gifts

2011-12-15 16:34:47

Theater review: 'And God Created Great Whales' at REDCAT

2012-01-26 16:34:03

Ben Heppner cancels 'Moby-Dick' performance in San Diego

2012-02-20 16:32:21

The Siren's Call: A horn of plenty's worth of holiday reading

2011-11-27 00:00:00

One Thanksgiving lesson most school kids probably don't receive has to do with the horn of plenty adorning festive paintings. For me it always seemed like a weird choice for carrying harvested food — what about a simple, flat-bottomed basket? But...

Tablets: Downloadable classic books are in abundance

2011-12-04 00:00:00

Let's say you're getting, or giving, a new tablet or an e-reader (iPad, Kobo, Nook or Kindle Fire) for the holidays. Here's an idea for what to do with it: Load it first with free books. Thanks to Project Gutenberg, as well as the cultural gift known as...

Book review: 'The Art of Fielding' by Chad Harbach

2011-10-16 00:00:00

The Art of Fielding A Novel Chad Harbach Little, Brown: 528 pp., $25.99 In terms of conjuring a shorthand for a certain American innocence, there are few delivery systems quite so direct as baseball. Touched on by a library's worth of authors...

Henry Carlisle dies at 84; author, translator helped bring Solzhenitsyn's work to Western audiences

2011-07-30 00:00:00

Henry Carlisle, a San Francisco author, translator and former editor who with his wife helped bring two works by Alexander Solzhenitsyn to Western audiences, has died. He was 84. Carlisle died of complications from pneumonia July 11 in San Francisco,...

Signed 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' book sells for $9,000

2011-10-12 16:34:21

5,000 books reportedly thrown out in Occupy Wall Street raid

2011-11-15 16:34:40

The creepy Nathaniel Hawthorne story Edgar Allan Poe loved

2011-06-26 16:34:43

"Star Trek" wasn't Stewart's only commander role on TV. Stewart (left) played ship captain Ahab on the hunt for author Herman Melville 's "accursed whale" in this TV miniseries.

2010-10-13 15:38:31

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"Star Trek" wasn't Stewart's only commander role on TV. Stewart (left) played ship captain Ahab on the hunt for author Herman Melville 's "accursed whale" in this TV miniseries.

2010-10-13 15:38:31

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Herman Melville has been described as "ahead of his time."

2001-10-30 15:33:26