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According to some reports, thousands of people from around the world are signing up to fight on behalf of Ukraine. But comparisons to the Spanish Civil War’s International Brigades are misguided.
Hemingway’s response to death and disease was very different from the parody that circulated earlier this year.
While the man the world knows as ‘Papa’ balanced the demands of parenting with his work, his letters and fiction offer a window into the depth of his paternal feeling.
Ellen N. La Motte’s ‘The Backwash of War’ was praised for its clear-eyed portrayal of war, but was swiftly banned. Yet the similarities between her spare prose and Hemingway’s are unmistakable.
A newly published batch of Ernest Hemingway’s letters could change the way we think about the author’s influences, relationships with other writers and views on race.
Many associate post-World War I culture with Hemingway and Fitzgerald’s Lost Generation. But for black artists, writers and thinkers, the war changed the way they saw their past and their future.
For many contemporary observers, the Spanish Civil War was seen as very much of a piece with the war against Hitler and Mussolini. But then things changed. Why?
Hunting remains a controversial pastime. But that hasn’t stopped it attracting hunters wanting to track Africa’s wide array of wild animals.
When Henry James renounced his American citizenship in 1915 in response to his country’s inaction, he spearheaded a movement of writers who refused to sit on the sidelines amid turmoil in Europe.
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Associate Editor, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway and Assistant Research Professor of English, Penn State
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Associate Professor in Journalism, Edinburgh Napier University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
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Professor in Tourism, North-West University
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Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Vice-President, Board of Governors, Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, New York University
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Professor of English, Georgia State University
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Research Associate Professor of American Studies & Director of the S. Daniel Abrham Honors Program, Yeshiva University
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Filología. Literatura moderna, Universidad de Navarra
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Professor of Hispanic Studies, Oberlin College and Conservatory
