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Moby Dick

The Thing Itself
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Gimme Welter
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From All Things Are Too Small, which will be published next month by Metropolitan Books. “All things / are too small,” begins a poem believed to be written by the thirteenth-century Dutch…

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A Loose Fish
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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…

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Devils in the Deep
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On suicide and Moby-Dick

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The Town-Ho’s Story
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From “THE WHALE.” The title of a new work by Mr. Melville, in the press of Harper and Brothers, and now publishing in London by Mr. Bentley. THE Cape of…

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