Inscrutable Malice Now in Paperback!
“With Inscrutable Malice, Jonathan Cook brings the exegetical approach he modeled in Satirical Apocalypse . . . to bear on Moby-Dick, producing the best reading of this iconic novel in recent memory. . . . Cook’s masterful and wide-ranging command of Melville’s library makes Moby-Dick into a guided tour through the Western canon, a pleasurable excursion across literary history en route to the mysteries of creation and the watery chaos monster Leviathan. . . . No serious student of Melville, the Bible, or American exegesis can afford to miss the brilliant connections made in Inscrutable Malice . . .” Zachary Hutchins, Religion and Literature.
Satirical Apocalypse: An Anatomy of Melville's "The Confidence-Man"
“Cook’s study is invaluable as a guide to a complex and elusive novel. . . . All subsequent commentary on The Confidence-Man will have to consider Cook's work.” Choice Reviews.
Visionary of the Word: Melville and Religion
“The signal achievement of this splendid collection of essays is to chart that dynamic in chapters that speak to one another, dwell together in collegial discourse, and explore the possibilities of conversion and conversation as continuing efforts rather than completed acts. . . . Visionary of the Word merges Cook's deep soundings of Melville's biblical sources and religious thinking with Yothers's wide-ranging consideration of Melville's global and lifelong religious questing.” Wyn Kelley, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.
Meet Jonathan
Jonathan A. Cook is a literary scholar, educator, and musician born in Washington, DC, raised in the Hudson Valley of New York, and currently living in Northern Virginia.
