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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The story of a 19th-century office worker who manages to refuse the rules of his society without ever saying no is a story of metaphysical defiance There are very few stories that, on re-reading after ...

There are few phrases in literature more quietly unhinged than “I would prefer not to.” And in Fiasco Theatre’s "Bartleby”, now playing at The Old Globe through March 22, that polite little sentence ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...