The words are 100 years old, but they burn with a timeless urgency. Some have been hastily erased, others crossed out, but the first line is clear: “Your Matchless grace your sensuous loveliness and ...

Once he became the spokesman for the “lost generation” of the 1920s, not much that Ernest Hemingway ever did escaped the attention of the press. But for the most part, he managed to conceal one ...

THE Hemingways sailed for Europe on December 8, 1921, armed with letters of introduction from Sherwood Anderson, who spoke of Hemingway as “a young fellow of extraordinary talent.” He did not hesitate ...

In 1924 the critic Edmund Wilson did what critics are known to do on occasion: He heralded the arrival of a stunning new voice in American fiction. Reviewing Ernest Hemingway’s first two books, “Three ...