Ernest Hemingway

  • Destination: The Alps

    More than an Alpine playground, Europe's most beloved mountain range has provided the dramatic backdrop in novels by Hemingway, Greene and Salter.
  • "I didn't like sex at all"

    Martha Gellhorn was a gorgeous, brilliant foreign correspondent once married to Hemingway. But underneath her glamorous exterior, her letters reveal a woman of awe-inspiring rage.
  • The sound bite and the fury

    Literary bad boy James Frey says Dave Eggers can eat his dust. His self-promotion is tiresome, but his addiction memoir, "A Million Little Pieces," shows he has the right stuff.
  • The Fix

    Polanski is pissed, Halle Berry is naked, and Victoria Gotti is canned. Plus: Justin Timberlake in a British brouhaha!
  • The critic in winter

    The legendary American literary critic Leslie Fiedler talks about his encounters with Hemingway and Faulkner, his falling out with Bellow and which contemporary novelists will last.
  • Farewell to Will

    Norman Mailer flattens George Will after the bow-tied GOP courtier notes a Hemingway-like eloquence in our president's mangled prose.
  • "In Harry's Bar in Venice"

    Listen to an archival recording of Ernest Hemingway reading his short story.
  • Ernest Hemingway

    "The Fifth Column"
  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, May 3, 2000
  • Expatriate novels

    The author of "Autobiography of a Face" picks five classics about life abroad.
  • Lust and bullets at Rumba Beach

    If Chaucer had retired to a trailer in Margaritaville, would he spend his evenings watching Fellini movies? He might.
  • Key to the city

    The door to Rilke's room in Spain was locked, but it turned out there are other doors to the culture.
  • The 7 vices of highly creative people

    If you go through life free of bad habits, you won't live forever, but it will feel like it.
  • Carl Hiaasen

    There are some questions even the author of "Sick Puppy" can't be asked.
  • A good man is hard to write

    Hemingway-tough or Fitzgerald-sensitive? Today's novelists scramble for a masculinity that doesn't seem fake.
  • Writer beware

    Publishing that first novel often brings more terrors than thrills.
  • Gertrude and Alice

    When Alice B. Toklas met Gertrude Stein, she heard bells ring. They went on to have one of the happiest marriages of the 20th century.
  • A moveable cough

    Dr. Bob explains consumption and reassures a woman who put on the wrong shoes.
  • Elmore Leonard

    The world's coolest crime writer has an uncanny ear for wry dialogue and a deep belief in lives with second acts.
  • Hemingway and me at the Paris Ritz

    Throwing back a few martinis in memory of Liberation Day.
  • He remembers Papa

    They fought about politics, he stole Hemingway's girl. An old war buddy reminisces.
  • Paris on my mind

    Why Ernest Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast" is great literary comfort food.
  • Paris's cafe renaissance

    For centuries they have been the stomach and soul of the city, but today the cafes of Paris are enjoying a renaissance. Wanderlust's man in Paris, David Downie, reports on the new scene in the City of Caffeine.
  • The Salon Interview - Ken Kalfus

    For 44-year-old Ken Kalfus, who has just published his first book, "Thirst," success was worth waiting for.
  • The last of the great white hunters

    In Kenya, Don Meredith encounters the last of the great white hunters -- and learns all about Cape buffalo and Ava Gardner.
Page 1 of 2  oldest ⇒

From Salon's blogs