Herman Melville Archives

Herman Melville

The Thing Itself

by Simon Critchley,

Letterman

by Will Self,

The surgeon who signed his work

The Victim Cloud

by Hannah Zeavin,

Gullibility in the golden age of scams

A Loose Fish

by Gerald Murnane,

From Last Letter to a Reader, an essay collection, which will be published in May by And Other Stories. I have my own way of assessing the worth of a…

Devils in the Deep

by Jill Bialosky,

On suicide and Moby-Dick

Mortgage-backed Insecurities

by Eula Biss,

From Having and Being Had, a book of non-fiction, which was published last month by Riverhead Books. Every year, financial advisers come to campus to meet with faculty, but I…