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 ...

Ernest Hemingway's terse prose style might seem clichéd today, but his short, declarative sentences and beneath-the-surface meaning were groundbreaking in his time. Here are four novels and a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every month, Sam Jordison will host an online reading group, featuring a book chosen by you. He will give you the background on the author and the world in which the book was written, ask experts in ...

In tenth grade, I read a biography of Ernest Hemingway. I used to claim to have read a lot of books I hadn’t read, and I thought that if I read Hemingway’s biography I wouldn’t have to actually read ...