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 ...

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 ...

Gay Talese and Frank Sinatra have enjoyed a rich, symbiotic relationship, one that has long outlasted the singer, who died at 82 a quarter-century ago. Back in 1965, Mr. Talese trailed Sinatra around ...

We all have experience with problem employees. Some of us have even been one. But few of us pose as big a problem as a copy clerk named Bartleby did to his colleagues. You likely haven’t encountered ...

Writer-director Angela Summereder discusses the hybrid approach of her movie, screening at Austria's Viennale this week, and her plan for a film about motherhood and climate tied to the Percival story ...

Bartleby wrote about the dangers of retiring, giving us the examples of some highly successful octo- and nonagenarian outliers who still work (January 27th). The problem for many successful (or mildly ...

The entrance to the Airtrain at the Howard Beach/JFK A train station was packed with protesters and cops Saturday evening. It was the first day of Trump’s anti ...