It was a long flight, and one woman had brought Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese to occupy herself. When she got to the book’s saddest passage, she started sobbing. “I mean complete, shameless, ...

“Call me Ishmael” is pretty universally regarded as one of the best opening lines in literature. It’s unlikely that the first three words of “Moby Dick” inspired these other “call me” titles and ...

Call Me Ishmael revolutionized the way we talk about books when it launched in the summer of 2014. The brainchild of Logan Smalley and Stephanie Kent, the website features a number where you can “call ...

Long gone are the days where readers are restricted to reading only printed books. Thanks to technology, we were introduced to e-book readers in 1998. These nitfy devices are literally swimming with ...

“What if Ishmael had a cellphone?” Yes, that Ishmael — the one from Moby Dick. It was a question that lit-lover Logan Smalley and a few of his colleagues came across while discussing (okay, tipsy ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. One night in 2014, friends Stephanie Kent and Logan Smalley sat in a literary bar ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. “Call me ...

But as we all know, Moby-Dick didn’t die. In the 20th century people began noticing the beauties of this weird whale of a book: its dazzling language, a concoction of Shakespeare, the King James Bible ...

As you probably know, one of our U.S. representatives submitted op-ed pieces for The Denver Post and another publication using unattributed work written by other House members. I’m talking, of course, ...

Surely you've heard the joke. You tell Siri, "Call me an ambulance" and Siri responds, "From now on, I'll call you, 'An Ambulance', Okay?" As Leanna Lofte points out in a great writeup over at the ...