Gregory Peck as Ahab in Moby Dick, 1956. (Ernst Haas / Getty Images) Over the past two decades, Pierre Senges has emerged as one of France’s most important and celebrated writers. At the age of 54, ...

This week, 161 years ago, on an icy day in much of the Northeast, Harper & Brothers released the American edition of Moby-Dick. Although published long ago, Moby-Dick breaches ubiquitous at this ...