Captain Ahab, who led the ill-fated quest for Melville's great white whale, Moby-Dick, may have been misunderstood. Today, it appears he has much... Was Captain Ahab Ahead of His Time? Is it possible?

In “Moby Dick,” Captain Ahab declares, “All my means are sane, my motive and object mad.” He rigged the whole ship and its system of command to drive his men to break their backs, to crack their oars, ...

Captain Ahab, a 3-foot, 40-pound wooden statue, takes a hot air balloon ride over western Massachusetts with Worthington Ballooning owner Paul Sena. Captain Ahab was on display at a recent assembly at ...

Obsession, sea salt, bloodlust and a really annoying whale – that is my synopsis of “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville. Crooked and bent over a carnal thirst for revenge, Captain Ahab leads the crew of ...

Last summer, MORE Theater/S.B., a site-specific drama company devised by artistic director Meg Kruszewska, premiered their first production: Part I of The Whalers’ Triptych. This trio of dramatic ...

In the New York Times, Charles M. Blow equates the Republican Party’s efforts to stall President Obama’s economic progress to Herman Melville’s iconic revenge-seeking Captain Ahab, who engaged in a ...

The work, which had its premiere in Dallas in 2010, is set in the nautical world of the whaling ship, Pequod, and tells the tale about the obsession of its Captain Ahab to destroy the great white ...