Topic: Moby Dick

Gingrich exits race, endorses Romney

The former speaker's campaign was idiosyncratic but attached 

Valentine's Day: 10 literary lessons in love

From 'Much Ado About Loving' by Jack Murnighan and Maura Kelly, 10 lessons in love from literary classics.

Project Gutenberg founder Michael Stern Hart: an e-book visionary

Hart was a college student in 1971 when he first glimpsed the potential of the e-book.

Worms from Hell: How deep do they dig?

Worms from Hell? Scientists have discovered a new species of worm called Halicephalobus mephisto in honor of Faust's demon Mephistopheles. It's the deepest living multicell organism found in the Earth.

Daylilies are wonderful flowers, but, oh, their names

About 1,000 new daylilies are registered every year. It's obviously not easy to come up with names for all of them. You could have a garden growing 142 daylies with some variation of the name 'plum' or 314 with 'peach.'

A book that brought God closer

As The King James translation of the Bible marks its 400th anniversary, its deep influence and prominence are slipping.

Traveling light: He had trimmed his belongings to a single suitcase, but what to do with his beloved books

In his great purge he had sold almost everything he owned except his books. Selling them was like saying goodbye to intimate friends.

Classic review: The Perfect Storm

Sebastian Junger's nonfiction account of the lives and deaths of the six-man crew of the Andrea Gail serves as an homage to the awesome power of weather.

BP oil spill: What we're learning about humans and the sea

For centuries, we have treated the sea as limitless resource and a bottomless dump. The BP oil spill may change that.

A twitter tour of Western philosophy

What if Socrates, Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, and Hume had been able to tweet their thoughts?

Classic book review: Ahab's Wife

Using a stray reference in "Moby Dick," a novelist creates the story of Ahab's wife.

The novel by tweet

The novel by tweet

The microblogging site, Twitter, launches into serialized fiction for bored cubicle dwellers.

The novel by tweet

The microblogging site, Twitter, launches into serialized fiction for bored cubicle dwellers.

Classics on the cheap

March of the family photos

It was time to bring some order to our jumbled story.

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