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 ...

Our story this week is called “Bartleby." It was written by Herman Melville, one of America’s best-known writers. Here is Shep O’Neal to tell you the story in Special English. SHEP O’NEAL: I am an old ...

Some people say they live in the office. A new Canberra theatre company is launching itself with a play in which a man does just that - and won't leave. Tension: Dene Kermond plays the young lawyer in ...

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 ...

Maybe we’re all mired in such a self-centered funk, just about any play feels as if it’s speaking to the current state of things. At the very least, the Wall Street setting of “Bartleby the Scrivener” ...

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 ...