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Topic: Herman Melville

Gregory Peck stars as the driven Captain Ahab in "Moby Dick," circa 1956. (Ernst Haas/Getty Images)

Existential lessons from "Moby Dick"

Aaron Sachs - The Conversation
(Wikimedia)

My ancestors, the cannibals

Melissa Cronin - Narratively
(AP/Hatem Moussa)

Noam Chomsky, right again

Greg Grandin - TomDispatch.com

William Giraldi - LA Review of Books
(King Post, via Hyperallergic)

Moby Dick: The Card Game

Allison Meier - Hyperallergic

Greg Olear - The Weeklings