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“Putting out a concept album about Moby-Dick could be career suicide”: Mastodon explain why Leviathan is so obsessed with the white whale

Mastodon explain why 2004 classic Leviathan is so fascinated with Herman Melville’s classic novel in a new interview

Metal Hammer

‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’: 15 of the most iconic book covers

From ‘The Great Gatsby’ to ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’, Finn Cliff Hodges looks at the best covers out there

The Independent UK

Townhouse on Craven Street listed for £11 million after an online-only estate agent visit

Herman Melville lived on the same street, which was at the centre of a bizarre Benjamin Franklin serial killer conspiracy

Evening Standard

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Gay, lesbian and intersex whales: our queer sea has much to teach us

The first documented sex between two male humpback whales is just the latest challenge to our presumptions about sexuality

The Guardian - UK

Poem of the week: In the Prison Pen by Herman Melville

The desolation of a prisoner-of-war camp in the American civil war is drawn with tragic power

The Guardian - UK

The atomic bomb and a near-death experience shadow Richard Flanagan's autobiographical Question 7

The most astonishing and accomplished sequence in Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 arrives near the book’s end, as he describes the near-death experience that inspired his first novel, Death of a River Guide, published in 1994.

The Conversation

Classic literature still offers rich lessons about life in the deep blue sea

When OceanGate, the deep-sea exploration enterprise, created a promotional video for its ill-fated US$250,000-per-head trip to see the wreck of the Titanic, it told prospective passengers to “Get ready for what Jules Verne could only imagine – a 12,500-foot journey to the bottom of the sea.” Those behind the video…

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For novelists of Westerns, Cormac McCarthy transcended — and reinvented — the genre

In his obituaries, Cormac McCarthy has been widely praised as a descendant of William Faulkner and Herman Melville among others, those excavators of the American spirit whose biblically influenced prose raised narratives to tragic and poetic heights

The Independent UK

Cormac McCarthy, celebrated US novelist, dies aged 89

Author of Blood Meridian, The Road and No Country for Old Men died in his home of natural causes, publisher announces

The Guardian - US

The Wager review: David Grann’s magnificent shipwreck epic

New masterpiece from the author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z is as much about literature as adventure

The Guardian - US

Shirt sandwich: why England’s red-splattered horror shreds rugby tradition

Steve Borthwick’s men will run out on Saturday in one of the worst rugby shirts of all time. It doesn’t have to be this way

The Guardian - UK

Up from the Depths by Aaron Sachs review – riveting journey into the worlds of Melville and Mumford

A stylish double biography paints a picture of the modern age through the eyes of two uniquely perceptive American writers

The Guardian - UK

Quiet quitting: why doing the bare minimum at work has gone global

The meaninglessness of modern work – and the pandemic – has led many to question their approach to their jobs

The Guardian - UK

Dennis Anderson: On Minnetonka, a walleye on the hook, and a 52-inch muskie to boot

MINNEAPOLIS — In Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick,'' the antagonist, Ahab, is so fixated with pursuing the great white whale of the book's title that Ahab's obsession results in his demise, and not in a pleasant way.

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‘Shake it and see what happens’: the confounding world of James Thierrée

The circus star turns singer in his new show, Room, which is designed to embrace chaos. He talks about the mystery of theatre and his movie missions

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