The first thing to clear up in this Further Reading post is what we should actually be reading in the first place. There's considerable confusion around, since In Our Time is proving tricky to get and ...

Ernest Hemingway donned many masks, or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that we as readers assigned him several identities. He was the rifle-wielding explorer on safari in Africa, the bearded ...

...Hemingway wrote that the world “breaks everyone,” and those “it does not break it kills.” “It kills the very good and very gentle and the very brave impartially,” he wrote. “If you are none of ...

Yesterday, a few hours after the Nobel Prize for Literature had been awarded to Tomas Transtromer, I received from former Nobel staffer Simon Frantz an audio clip that seized my heart. It is a 1954 ...

Ernest Hemingway lived, drank, fished and wrote in many locales around the country and the world. One of his most celebrated haunts is Key West, Fla., where the late writer’s birthday is marked each ...