Leviathan contains articles, notes, reviews, and creative writing on the life, works, and influence of novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819-1891). Each issue also includes Melville Society reports, news of cultural events, and abstracts of program papers in its Extracts department. First appearing in 1999, Leviathan was created by John Bryant and is open to all scholarly, historicist, critical, and pedagogical approaches.