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"Any man's life, told truly," Ernest Hemingway wrote in Death in the Afternoon (1932), "is a novel," and he strove to lead a life "better than any picaresque novel you ever read." The mention of his name conjures up a host of images--a cub reporter chasi...

Ernest Hemingway was twenty-two years old when he arrived in Paris in late December 1921. He had taken part in World War I as a volunteer ambulance driver, and after his experiences in Europe during the war he found life in the United States provincial a...

Ernest Hemingway is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of American writers. He is seen variously as a sensitive and dedicated artist and as a hedonistic adventurer, as a literary poseur and as the stylistic genius of the century. His perso...

Nanotechnology Michael Kohler, Wolfgang Fritzsche Chichester: Wiley-VCH, 2004 Pages 272 85.00 [pounds sterling] ISBN 3 527 30750 8 During the past ten years, the concept of nanotechnology has swiftly moved from the realm of futurology into the real world. Palpable...

Depending what oar you pull, Josiah M. Bunting III is either an educational radical or reactionary (so far as those terms have point or precision any longer). It might be more accurate to describe him -- formally, Maj. Gen. Bunting, superintendent of the...

Excerpts of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on his first-place finish in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions.MCCAIN: My friends, you know, I'm past the age when I can claim the noun kid, no matter what adjective precedes it. But tonight, we sure...

The passions of their idealistic youth run up against reality and middle-age for the 19th century revolutionaries and intellectuals in "Salvage," the third chapter of "The Coast of Utopia," Tom Stoppard's masterful trilogy of man's quest for a new and better world.Rueful resignation isn't as...

In the following excerpt, from an essay that was origingally published in 1989, Strychacz discusses the ways in which Hemingway's characters enact masculine identity and explores the meanings and difficulties of masculinity in In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises.

In the following essay, Brogan investigates the genre and aesthetics of In Our Time.

In the attempt to get at the "truth" of real-life experience and to attain the ideal of writing a "classic" that he initially posed for himself, Hemingway began in his early volumes of short stories to describe the adventures of a boy on the threshold of manhood. As Philip Young and Carlos Baker have pointed out in their studies, half of the stories of In Our Time (1925), the first short story collection, are devoted to the development of Nick Adams. They are arranged chronologic...

Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time