Paris ’44: The Shame and the Glory by Patrick Bishop review – a gripping account of the City of Light’s liberation
This enthralling, cinematic study of the occupation and recapture of the French capital reads like an epic thriller
April 2024
‘Generous and reflective’: letters show other sides to macho Ernest Hemingway
In the mid-1930s, the novelist, then a controversial war correspondent, encouraged aspiring writers with frankness and humour
October 2023
Brief letters
Pity poor parents on unending Paw Patrol
Brief letters: Adventure city | Overcrowded prisons | Hemingway’s sports | Game shooting | Dilettante v amateur
September 2023
Ernest Hemingway letter about surviving plane crashes sold for $237,055
The novelist’s four-page letter to his lawyer in 1954 recounts his injuries following two successive plane crashes in two days
February 2023
Top 10s
Top 10 neglected books about the Spanish civil war
A few celebrated names dominate our understanding of this ‘last great cause’, but these novels and memoirs show there is much more to learn
October 2022
The books of my life
Kit de Waal: ‘Life is too short to finish books I don’t like’
Down the rabbit hole
What links Colin Farrell to Sex and the City and a pint of plain?
September 2022
From the Guardian archive
Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea reviewed – archive, 1952
12 September 1952: Tough writing in the best sense of the word
July 2022
Men without women: Florida attorney wins Hemingway Look-Alike crown
A complicated story: why we need nuanced depictions of abortion in books
June 2022
Top 10s
Top 10 stories of male friendship
Writers from Alexandre Dumas to Jack Kerouac and Colson Whitehead have written fiction worth bonding with about these sometimes uneasy alliances
March 2022
Trigger warning: this column contains reporting of rightwing stupidity
Arwa Mahdawi
Advising that a Hemingway novel contains ‘graphic fishing scenes’ sounds overzealous – but being over-sensitive is hardly the worst problem we face today, writes the Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi
February 2022
The Great Gapsby? How modern editions of classics lost the plot
F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is the latest title to appear in a cheap modern version after copyright expires
December 2021
Books and films censored under Franco still circulating in Spain
Joan Didion obituary
July 2021
The Guardian picture essay
Hemingway ‘wannabes’ celebrate author with lookalike contest
Observer New Review Q&A
Ken Burns: ‘I felt that Hemingway’s uber-masculinity was a mask’
June 2021
TV review
Hemingway review – a gripping portrait of a literary legend
TV tonight
TV tonight: Ken Burns chronicles the life of Ernest Hemingway
May 2021
The joy of small things
A half-shaven head? A handbag of snails at a cocktail party? I just adore a true eccentric
There is probably something in the idea that quirkiness or slightly odd behaviour might have a link with mental illness, neurodiversity or creative skill
