Published a century ago, Hemingway’s first major book finds him as a fully formed writer, addressing eternal themes of war ...

...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 ...

ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES (308 pp.)—Ernest Hemingway—Scribner ($3). Hemingway was the champ all right. He was past 50, but still the champ, and he was ready to take on all comers. He had ...

Ernest Hemingway was the master of the simple, declarative sentence during his time. By contrast, when Saul Bellow came along, he wrote descriptive sentences full of verbal energy. “This was a great ...

From the archives: A story originally published June 27, 1999, from Steve Paul, now editorial page editor. “Kansas City was a strange and wonderful place,” Ernest Hemingway once wrote but never ...