The pictorial shorthand of emojis is perfect for small phone screens. It has also sprawled into a lexicon rich in metaphor ...

New Bedford is one step closer to paying homage to literary legend Herman Melville. The larger-than-life sculpture of the ...

Although author Herman Melville never called New Bedford home, he wrote glowingly of the port city in his most famous work “Moby-Dick,” describing it as “perhaps the dearest place to live in ...

Your adventure should have a goal, it is true, but it is called a hero’s journey for a reason. Happiness comes not from the ...

In Pittsfield, Herman Melville sat, in his second-floor study, gazing north out of the window at the mountain range rambling and rising along the horizon. It was in that room, at Arrowhead, he gazed ...

Elizabeth Doss watches a rehearsal of "Poor Herman," a play about Herman Melville's epic literary failure, "Pierre; or the Ambiguities." The play, written and directed by Doss, Melville's ...

To mark the 205th anniversary of Melville’s birth, a journey to the Peabody Essex Museum's exhibition "Draw Me Ishmael" that explores how book artists have been inspired by the author's iconic ...

Four accomplished sculptors have been selected as finalists to create New Bedford’s Herman Melville statue, chosen from over 40 artists.

The Berkshire Opera Festival, Berkshire County Historical Society and Tanglewood Learning Institute are coming together for evening of arias and readings from both Billy Budds to toast the novella’s ...