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October 22, 2014

Herman Melville's masterpiece brought to Tommy Wiseau’s The Room-depth ruin — and a drinking game to accompany it!

September 30, 2014

Reconsidering the literary landscape in the wake of the Great War, Lawrence rescued Herman Melville’s now venerated novel from absolute obscurity.

July 25, 2014

Though it may seem like the answer is yes, Emily Dickinson, Franz Kafka and John Kennedy Toole might disagree.

July 01, 2014

Whale attacks, cannibalism and tyrannical captains — this wasn’t Herman Melville’s fiction.

December 09, 2013

It’s like a Sparknote of a Sparknote of a Sparknote.

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