Adopt This Book: Herman Melville: Complete Poems
Book Madness author Denise Gigante on the obsessive 19th-century bibliomaniacs who “lived in and through books”
Herman Melville, “Jimmy Rose”
Jarred McGinnis: The boundary-pushing American authors who taught this emigrant how to write
Listen: “The Republic of Verse” now open to all who will hear
YouTube reviewer extols the virtues of our Melville poetry volume: “This exists!”
LOA celebrates Herman Melville’s 200th birthday with his Complete Poems
Nathaniel Philbrick asks Why Read Moby-Dick? and many rise to the “cunning test”
Stephen Colbert’s two-minute Moby-Dick lesson is a real roller-coaster ride
E. L. Doctorow pays tribute to Herman Melville’s great “kitchen-sink sort of book”
Peter Ustinov’s Billy Budd: Elemental conflict in a vivid tapestry of life at sea
Wai Chee Dimock: Reading American literature outside the box
The War Before the War: Andrew Delbanco on fugitive slaves and the fragility of the American Republic
Geoffrey O’Brien: The House of Walworth, American Gothic, and Gilded Age literature