At 100, ‘The Sun Also Rises’ can feel newly relevant

This year marks the centennial of “The Sun Also Rises,” the debut novel of Ernest Hemingway, an anniversary that arrives with ...
CNN

‘Hemingway’ tackles the writer in a documentary as big as his tumultuous life

The long history of Ken Burns documentaries ranges from places to people to entire wars. His latest collaboration with Lynn Novick, “Hemingway,” falls in that middle category, portraying Ernest ...
Yahoo

Ken Burns' new Hemingway documentary doesn't give you a reason to read Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway, subject of a new documentary, at his home in Cuba. (A.E. Hotchner) In 1924 the critic Edmund Wilson did what critics are known to do on occasion: He heralded the arrival of a ...
NPR

The importance of being Ernest: An attorney wins a Hemingway contest

KEY WEST, Fla. — Some came in wool fisherman's sweaters, and other contestants had sportsmen's attire. But it was the cream-colored sweater of attorney Jon Auvil that caught the eye of judges who ...
Los Angeles Times

Hemingway slept here

It was a good sunrise. It was a true sunrise. Hemingway would have liked it. I stood on the shore of Lake Superior in this tiny Wisconsin town -- not exactly Ernest Hemingway country -- but I was ...
The Atlantic

‘Eliminate Every Superfluous Word’

His poor head, you keep thinking as you watch Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s Hemingway. His poor bloody head. Even the corroded voice of Peter Coyote, whose narration is a study in American ...