Dayswork
by Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel.
Norton, 230 pp., $26.95; $17.99 (paper; to be published in September)
Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
by Aaron Sachs.
Princeton University Press, 450 pp., $39.95; $24.95 (paper)
Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies: An Aesthetics in All Things
by Cody Marrs.
Oxford University Press, 148 pp., $97.00
Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem
by Jennifer L. Fleissner.
University of Chicago Press, 480 pp., $105.00; $35.00 (paper)
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
by Herman Melville, edited by Jeffrey Insko.
Norton, 673 pp., $12.87 (paper)
In literature as in life, significant birthdays are occasions for both celebration and reassessment. Herman Melville’s two hundredth birthday happened to just precede the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.…
