brush up on your knowledge of Captain Ahab, Queequeg, and the titular big fella himself with these five riffs on the novel. 1. Picture Book Matt Kish’s beautiful art experiment, Moby-Dick in ...

During a visit to the National Gallery, Melville purportedly saw artist J.M.W. Turner’s Whalers painting ... the character of Captain Ahab, the protagonist in Moby-Dick. During a visit to ...

"I see a madman beget madmen," Starbuck declares as the chase after Moby Dick is nearing its end, and as Captain Ahab is firing the crew of the Pequod to a frenzy of excitement. The trouble is ...

though the denouement—as Ahab and the ship have their fatal encounter with Moby-Dick—is visually vague. Gavan Swift’s ...

In an early scene from "Moby-Dick," the crew of the whaling vessel The Pequod get to know their skipper. His name is Captain Ahab, and they are on a dangerous journey to track down the white whale ...