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

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

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.

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.