The NBA’s beloved studio crew is still on TV—it’s just shifting gears. ESPN will be licensed Inside the NBA from TNT in a groundbreaking agreement, and fans will be able to see Shaquille O’Neal, ...

Stephen King is the world's most famous horror writer, so when he calls another book a literary masterpiece, readers should ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

“The Melville boom,” the critic Van Wyck Brooks wrote in 1921, is “only a question of time.” By the 1930s the prediction had been borne out; after decades of neglect, “Moby-Dick” (1851) was widely ...

Their 30th Annual “Moby-Dick” Marathon — in which some 250 volunteers take turns reading Herman Melville’s classic aloud, cover to cover, over the course of some 25 hours — kicks off Jan. 3 at noon, ...

A new termite species, Cryptotermes mobydicki, was discovered in South America by an international research team. The termite was named for its resemblance to the white sperm whale from Herman ...