Which literary works would you recommend to a political consultant to stay in touch with his or her soul and avoid becoming lost in the dark side? How about Hawthorne, Melville, Shakespeare, Pinter, and Terrence McNally?
Walt Whitman and Herman Melville’s revolutionary visions of egalitarian societies shaped how Abolitionists thought about America’s potential.
A summer institute where one buries oneself in books is my version of James Hilton’s Shangri-La.
Is America headed for the same fate as the Pequod?
The Sandy Hook killings recall the Biblical massacre of the innocents, referenced in “Moby Dick.”
With a little imagination, “Moby Dick” can be dramatized as a story about race relations.
Literary allusions are flying fast and free in this primary season.
Nathaniel Philbrick describes “Moby Dick” as a “metaphysical survival manual” which helps us understand the nature of tyrants.
Our students, displaced by mold, are being housed in a cruise ship. A campus production of “As You Like It” may have given administrators the idea.
