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Thomas Bevilacqua, our man in Oak Park, summarizes the start of the festivities.
Read MoreThe Hemingway Review blog welcomes Thomas Bevilacqua as "Our Man in Oak Park." Tom will be offering a daily account of the Oak Park conference--stories, highlights, gossip (just kidding), and photos.
Read MoreMariel Hemingway is the granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Richardson, and daughter of Jack Hemingway, Ernest’s oldest son. On behalf of the Hemingway Review and the Newsletter, Wayne Catan conducted an interview with Mariel in which she discusses her acting career, her work with Woody Allen, the famous actor’s depiction of her grandfather in Midnight in Paris, the first Hemingway book she read (and wrote about), her work with suicide prevention, her newest book Out Came the Sun, and much more. Contributor Wayne Catan conducts the interview.
Read MoreRon Berman writes about "Books in the Background" of Hemingway scholarship in this new series of posts for the Hemingway Review blog. He will tackle all kinds of books that contribute to richer understanding of the context in which Hemingway lived and wrote. In this installment, he looks at books related to Prohibition.
Read MoreThe Hemingway legacy is long and wide, and the myths and fantasies that have grown around him are endless and often irrepressible. The bull-fighting warrior lover. The heroic soldier. The six-toed cats. Sometimes you don’t even know where to begin when the subject turns to some debatable piece of Hemingway lore.
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The Spring 2016 issue celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Hemingway Review. We acknowledge this milestone with a special “anniversary features” section, which includes an interview with the founding editor of the Review, Charles M. “Tod” Oliver, and a creative piece by Kirk Curnutt that imagines how Hemingway felt on his thirty-fifth birthday through a series of imaginary letters to friends and family. Hemingway, for the first time since I am editor , graces the cover. In the image, he is, of course, thirty-five and looks out at us confidently from the deck of his recently acquired boat, Pilar.
Read MoreRon Berman writes about "Books in the Background" of Hemingway scholarship in this new series of posts for the Hemingway Review blog. He will tackle all kinds of books that contribute to richer understanding of the context in which Hemingway lived and wrote. In this installment, he looks at books related to photography.
Read MoreRon Berman writes about "Books in the Background" of Hemingway scholarship in this new series of posts for the Hemingway Review blog. He will tackle all kinds of books that contribute to richer understanding of the context in which Hemingway lived and wrote. In this installment, he looks at books related to The Great War.
Read MoreRon Berman writes about "Books in the Background" of Hemingway scholarship in this new series of posts for the Hemingway Review blog. He will tackle all kinds of books that contribute to richer understanding of the context in which Hemingway lived and wrote.
Read MoreGreg Forter’s insightful chapter on The Sun Also Rises, in his book Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism, employs René Girard’s conception of sacrificial violence to suggest that bullfighting in the novel becomes “Hemingway’s fantasmatic … way of imagining a society that knows how to displace, ritualize, and thereby regulate its own violence, rather than wreaking it devastatingly on the bodies of its members” (80). As Spain sat out the World War, one might reasonably see the bullfight as prophylactic—until Spanish society’s internal violence erupted with a vengeance in the civil war of the 1930s.
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