For answers, paddle up to Salem, where the Peabody Essex Museum is presenting “Draw Me Ishmael: The Book Arts of Moby-Dick ... is a stick-figure minimalist, his images made of spindly ...

While any large telescope can snap photos of galaxies, the challenge is to accurately calculate their distance in an ever-expanding universe so we can build up the family tree and piece together ...

Of the many tender and heart-wrenching moments in “Big Tree,” Brian Selznick’s illustrated ... “I had to give the images the same rules that the story has, which is that everything is ...

“By its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe,” says Ishmael, in Chapter 42 of Herman Melville’s masterpiece. “It” is whiteness—the color ...