"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...

AT THE JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY In the modern archival profession, one of the small but nonetheless piercing aggravations of the job is the newspaper headline that reads "Lost [fill in the blank] Manuscript Found at Archives!" The image conveyed is of...

AFTER SEVERAL FALSE starts on this review, I turned to Edmund Wilson's "The Literary Worker's Polonius," a light-hearted but nonetheless practical guide to the duties of editors, writers, reviewers, and even the public. Wilson's 1935 guide is still current in most ways and...