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    -WIKIPEDIA: Herman Melville
    -STORY: The Town-Ho’s Story (Herman Melville, October 1851, Harper's Weekly)
    -PODCAST: 10 Essential Questions About Moby-Dick: From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson (History of Literature, January 30, 2023)
    -PODCAST: Listen to Joseph Pearce discuss "Moby Dick" (Chris McGregor, Ignatius Press: Great Works in Western Literature)
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    -ESSAY: Herman Melville’s Last Story (Christine Norvell, November 13th, 2025, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: On “Mocha Dick,” the White Whale of the Pacific that Influenced Herman Melville: Tim Queeney Explores Ropemaking, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Jeremiah N. Reynolds’s Wild Tale (Tim Queeney, August 12, 2025, LitHub)
    -ESSAY: Melville’s Bartleby: The Great-Great-Grandfather of the Quiet Quitters of Today’s Gen Z: Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” had It right: Why forcing workers back to the office misses the point. (Stephan Richter, 8/02/25, The Globalist)
    -ESSAY: Chaos Bewitched Moby-Dick and AI (Eigil zu Tage-Ravn, 3/21/25, Public Domain Review)
    -ESSAY: What Moby Dick Still Teaches Us (Andy Owen, 02/26/2025, Merion West)
    -ESSAY: Herman Melville’s Great American Novel, ‘Moby-Dick,’ Only Got Mixed Reviews When It First Hit Bookstores: The now-beloved book, which centers on a sailor seeking revenge against a sperm whale, was initially met with lukewarm sales, only achieving iconic status after the author’s death (Eli Wizevich, November 14, 2024, Smithsonian)
    -ESSAY: 100 YEARS OF BILLY BUDD (Lafayette Lee, 3/23/24, IM1776)
    -ESSAY: What Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” Tells Us About Memory Loss: Dasha Kiper on Understanding and Caring For Dementia Patients (Dasha Kiper, March 23, 2023, LitHub)
    -ESSAY: Melville Reborn, Again and Again: A scholar traces Herman Melville’s reputation in American and British literary circles. (Matthew Wills September 28, 2014, Jstor)
    -ESSAY: Ishmael’s Real Name Was Jonah: The Interpretive Key that Allows Us to See Melville’s Work as a Unified Whole (Will Hoyt, 8/29/20, University Bookman)
    -ESSAY: Cooking with Herman Melville (Valerie Stivers April 16, 2021, Paris Review)
    -ESSAY: Herman Melville and the Desolation of Solitude (Jason Katz, 11.23/20, Ploughshares)
    -ESSAY: Satire, Symbolism, and the “Working Through” of Historical Ghosts in The Confidence-Man (Alex McDonnell Articles, Issue 10 2020-21, Irish Journal of American Studies)https://lithub.com/the-white-whales-of-the-sky-on-moby-dick-airplanes-and-obsessions-past-and-present/
    -ESSAY: “The White Whales of the Sky.” On Moby-Dick, Airplanes, and Obsessions Past and Present: Kate Folk Explains Her Aviation-Themed Homage to Herman Melville’s Timeless Novel (Kate Folk, April 8, 2025, LitHub)
    -ESSAY: Moby-Dick doesn’t deserve the ‘difficult’ label – this sea romance was once loved by office workers, sailors and children (Edward Sugden, June 3, 2025, The Conversation)
    -ESSAY: Another cruise: Re-reading “Moby-Dick” at Ahab’s age (Caleb Crain, Aug 26, 2025, Leaflet)
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    -REVIEW: of The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade By Herman Melville Edited by Hershel Parker and Mark Niemeyer (Roger K. Miller, Philadelphia Inquirer)
    -REVIEW: of The Value of Herman Melville, by Geoffrey Sanborn (Daniel Ross Goodman, Imaginative Conservative)
    -REVIEW: of Cook, Neither Believer Nor Infidel: Skepticism and Faith in Melville’s Shorter Fiction and Poetry (Zach Hutchins, Irish Journal of American Studies)
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