The New Bedford Whaling Museum hosts a 25-hour “read-a-thon” each year of Melville’s tome about one captain’s obsession with ...

By the end of Double Jeopardy, Tarr had the lead with $16,000, with Matthews at $12,600, and Yancey at $7,600. Considering ...

Named the best nonfiction book of the year by ReadingRoom, Whaea Blue by Talia Marshall (Te Herenga Waka University Press, $38) is available as an ideal Xmas gift in bookstores nationwide.

When my son was in first grade, it became clear to our family that the educational environment was not going to work for him without accommodations.

By R.A. Mathews The New Year is upon us! Many look forward to it weeks in advance, plotting and planning — heads full of ideas. “What will I accomplish this year?” they ask. Email newsletter signup ...

Just as Jesus made humor of the religiosity in His day, old Jonah knew that even the most spiritually adept believer has a ...

Ira Gershwin put it like this: “Oh Jonah, he lived in the whale, / For he made his home in / That fish’s abdomen.” But Gershwin, or perhaps the character in Porgy and Bess who sings it ...

Chris Rock joked that “no one would care” about alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione if he looked like Jonah Hill in his “Saturday Night Live” monologue. “We got Luigi ...

Now, Jonah Savaiinaea will try to follow in his footsteps. After much speculation that the big offensive lineman would declare for the NFL draft after this past campaign ended, he has now made it ...

A car drove into a crowd at a Christmas market Friday evening in the central German city of Magdeburg, killing at least two people, according to media reports.

I KNOW something about elitism, having grown up in the exclusive Sanctified Brethren — we refused to commune with 99.85% of ...

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