Herman Melville Archives

Herman Melville

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…