intensely personal book. As an unflinching patient’s-eye record of a dangerous, poorly understood condition, it may also be an important one. “My son’s name is Ishmael,” Ali writes at the ...

The book is the creation of Fred Benenson ... A telephone and mustachioed face lack the literary punch of “Call me Ishmael.” “It’s up to the readers of Emoji Dick to decide whether ...

Crooked and bent over a carnal thirst for revenge, Captain Ahab leads the crew of the Pequod to their deaths to kill the infamous whale. Tousled at sea while bumbling around the waves completely ...

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