Book Review: Ernest Hemingway
/The epic and tortured life of Ernest Hemingway is told with remarkable insight in a powerful new biography
Read MorePassing Roncesvalles Again
/The new Scribner "Hemingway Library" edition of The Sun Also Rises offers annotations, rough drafts, and alternate line-edits - but how much light does it shed on its "near-perfect work of fiction"?
Read MoreMoving-Away
/The Hemingway Library has given us a variorum edition of A Farewell to Arms with 39 alternate endings. But how might Hemingway himself have felt about the resulting collage?
Read MoreAttainted: The Life and Afterlife of Ezra Pound in Italy
/Pound wrote The Pisan Cantos on toilet paper while prisoner in an open-air metal cage during WWII, and he spent many of the following years in mental hospitals. "I can get along with crazy people," he quipped. "It's only the fools I can't stand."
Read MoreThe Muse of Trouville
/‘She’s a drug; I’m her main focus, the focus of all her attention. No one has ever loved me like that.' Victoria Best explores the fraught relationship between Marguerite Duras and the young man whose love inspired and tormented her.
Read MoreIt's... James Franco!
/Hollywood heartthrob James Franco follows a different Muse and delivers his debut collection of short stories. You're just a bit curious, aren't you?
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