For generations, Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener," has been taught as a story about alienation, capitalism, ...

Curiously, his sympathies rested with the killer—the man he called “the hapless Colt” in his great tale of office work and ...

Melville never recovered from the failure of Moby Dick. Moreover, at the same time, he suffered from headaches and sciatica; his farm was failing, as was his marriage; and he faced financial ruin.

When Herman Miller launched the Aeron chair in 1994, almost nothing about it made sense. Unlike other chairs of that era, it wasn’t made of leather or full of plush foam. Instead, its frame was ...

The Coyl uses a coil design for the power cable, keeping it neat and taut between the desk and the wall. And instead of relying on boring levers to adjust the height, it has a nifty rotary dial. First ...

The author of an exhaustive two-volume biography, he was “fanatical about his approach to scholarship and infatuated with Melville,” a colleague said. By Richard Sandomir For Bethany Collins, Herman ...

PITTSFIELD — Herman Melville's love for the Berkshires is explored in a new book by John S. Dickson, a longtime volunteer at Arrowhead, Herman Melville's home. "Herman Melville in the Berkshires," ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Bride!" is a visually and narratively ambitious film that struggles to contain its many ideas. The movie features bold performances from Jessie Buckley as the bride and ...

SELECTED POEMS OF HERMAN MELVILLE edited by Hennig Cohen. 259 pages. University of Southern Illinois. $7. Considering the Selected Poems of Herman Melville, it is lucky that Melville’s literary ...

In Herman Melville’s 1851 short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” a hyper-efficient Wall Street clerk up-ends office norms by saying he’d “prefer not to” do any of the additional tasks his boss tries ...

Aviary Books in New Bedford is hosting a marathon reading of Herman Melville short stories on Jan. 2. The event is timed to coincide with the "Moby-Dick" Marathon at the Whaling Museum. Readers are ...