The Emperor Has No Harpoon: Why Moby-Dick is the Biggest Bait-and-Switch in Literary History

Let’s be brutally honest with each other for five seconds: nobody actually enjoys reading all of Moby-Dick. We love the idea of it. We love quoting the opening line, “Call me Ishmael.” We love the cinematic imagery of a wild-eyed, peg-legged captain screaming defiance into a typhoon while hunting a phantom albino leviathan. In our… Continue reading The Emperor Has No Harpoon: Why Moby-Dick is the Biggest Bait-and-Switch in Literary History