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Among the masterworks assembled by Gary K. Wolfe are Samuel R. Delany’s Melvillean “Nova” and the great Jack Vance’s characteristically debonair “Emphyrio.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2019

Ahab, Queequeg, Starbuck and Pip are all there and true to their Melvillean natures, but so is the cantankerous writer himself.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2019

For proof, watch out for the Melvillean mass of 50th anniversary pieces about to be published.

From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2017

Without a Melvillean or Kerouacian framework, or at least some kind of narrative to spell out a potential beyond death, none of my resourcefulness or curiosity was recognizable, and therefore I was unrecognizable.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2013

And so, like some kind of midcentury Melvillean trickster, Hobbs roamed the country, a succession of sprung doors and flabbergasted bank managers in his wake.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2013