Bartleby, the Scrivener must be the most famous short fiction in American literature. The novella's final lines rank among the most quoted in the canon: "Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity!" But we can't read ...

Playwright R.L. Lane has set himself a considerable task in adapting "Bartleby the Scrivener," Herman Melville's novella about a morose young copyist whose impenetrable melancholy proves the undoing ...

It's a source of bafflement to me that Bartleby the Scrivener is not the most famous and celebrated book by Herman Melville. It's a flawless and ambiguous work of art – good-ambiguous, not ...

As the Occupy Wall Street protest blossoms across America, they are no doubt being watched over by the country’s patron saint of civil disobedience. Bartleby, the hero of Bartleby the Scrivener: A ...

But they went back to it, the sound hit them, and the name stuck. (For the record, Herman Melville wrote the well-regarded 19th century story, “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A story of Wall Street.”) They ...

How an 1853 short story gave today's movement against the 1 percent a tag-line and a heroic example of how to possess political space. On May 1, students and activists are planning to revive the ...

Hours after a federal judge ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia released last week, an immigration judge — who is a Department of Justice employee — entered a document ...

Developments in social media over the past few years have made the era a high-water mark for the well-adjusted and socially ambitious. There are more ways than ever to converse, to learn about your ...

There have been at least five film versions of Herman Melville's novella Bartleby the Scrivener, which is surprising considering how undramatic the plot is. R.L. Lane's stage adaptation, which ...