the protagonist in Moby-Dick. During a visit to the National Gallery, Melville purportedly saw artist J.M.W. Turner’s Whalers painting, which provided him with visual inspiration for the novel ...

I was overly aware of my response the night I saw Moby-Dick at the Met. I don’t know the first thing about opera and, more worryingly, I’ve become known to friends as a person who won’t stop talking ...