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...I’ve been rereading Melville’s epic and, upon revisiting it, have started to identify more and more with Ahab. Riley looks concerned....
...If Herman Melville, Byron and Patrick O’Brian took inspiration from the Wager’s story, so did William Golding, whose Lord of the Flies Grann cites in his epigraph....
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...At the opposite end of the seriousness spectrum lies Oh God, The Sun Goes (Melville House £16.99)....
...Good Harold Pinter Theatre, London “We probably are good,” says David Tennant’s Halder, meditatively, towards the end of CP Taylor’s Good....
...In David Farr’s fascinating new play, Sam, a 33-year-old journalist from the UK, arrives in the New Mexico desert to bury her estranged mother, Kath....
...His most recent runway collections drew inspiration from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince and Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. “There’s always some type of story....
...But Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Mill and his son, John Stuart Mill, all shared the same view....
...The Perfect Golden Circleby Benjamin Myers, Bloomsbury £16.99/Melville House $27.99 Summer 1989, and the UK is gripped by crop-circle mania....
...Overlooking the Melville monument on St Andrew Square — since the 1780s one of the city’s most fashionable addresses and the heart of Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town — the Townhouse’s building was constructed...
...Monument Maker by David Keenan, White Rabbit £25, 912 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Set on the leafy Upper East Side, the landmark institution counts Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Willa Cather and Tom Wolfe among its historic members, while modern-day writers flock to the quiet fifth-floor...
...It’s as true now as when Herman Melville made the point in his novel The Confidence-Man....
...BEAU TRAVAIL (1999) Claire Denis turns Melville’s Billy Budd into a French foreign legion fantasy/tragedy, crowned by modern cinema’s boldest and most bizarre last scene....
...Tony Barber FT Europe commentator In times of quarantine the place to go is Herman Melville and Moby Dick....
...David Pilling is a former Tokyo FT bureau chief and author of ‘Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival’ ‘Manga’ is at the British Museum, London, from May 23 until August 26. britishmuseum.org...
...There is a firm trio of officers, sung by Thomas Oliemans, David Soar and Peter Kellner....
...What all the most unbuttoned wordies — from Rabelais through Leopardi, whose Zibaldone, or “hodgepodge” book, ran to thousands of pages, from Herman Melville to James Joyce, Salman Rushdie and David Foster...
...David Hebb New York, NY, US...
...From Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) to Don DeLillo’s Underworld (1997), American authors have produced works of sweeping grandeur that attempt to capture a people at a point in history....
...A trevally leaps clear of the ocean to snatch a bird in flight, like Tashtego dragging a gull into the depths with him at the climax of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick....
...Stephen Tennant and David Bowie — two glamorous gay icons — also haunt the book, for queerness and gender fluidity are among Hoare’s key themes and the sea a useful metaphor, its vastness mocking restrictive...
...If properly published, she thinks, Thoreau’s book, which a reviewer called maddening, “would have taken its place next to Hawthorne’s Mosses from an Old Manse and Melville’s Typee as the culmination of the...
...Nicolson references Heaney and Yeats, Melville and Milton, but his own writing sparkles too, with beautiful accompanying illustrations by artist Kate Boxer....
...It is inspired by the subsequent graphic novelisation by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli as much as by Auster’s story itself....
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