Current Bibliography

[The current bibliography aspires to include all serious contributions to Hemingway scholarship. Given the substantial quantity of significant critical work appearing on Hemingway’s life and writings annually, inconsequential items from the popular press have been omitted to facilitate the distinction of important developments and trends in the field. Annotations for articles appearing in The Hemingway Review have been omitted due to the immediate availability of abstracts introducing each issue. Kelli Larson welcomes your assistance in keeping this feature current. Please send reprints, clippings, and photocopies of articles, as well as notices of new books, directly to Larson at the University of St. Thomas, 333 JRC, 2115 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105-1096. E-Mail: KaLarson1@stthomas.edu.]

BOOKS

Blume, Lesley M. M. Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. [Biographical and historical study of EH’s groundbreaking modernist classic beginning with his 1929 marriage to Hadley and subsequent departure for Europe and closing with his 1933 return visit to Paris. Blume covers the modernist milieu of 1920s Paris and Spain, the author’s creation of a public persona, and meteoric rise to fame. Discusses the novel’s real-life models and the maelstrom of events that transpired in Paris and Pamplona, along with the novel’s composition and publication history and critical reception. Nifty epilogue outlines the ensuing lives of those who inspired EH’s characters. Draws on existing biographies, memoirs, correspondence, newspaper articles, and other historical documents. Includes over thirty black-and-white photographs of EH and others of the Lost Generation along with extensive endnotes and index.]

Cirino, Mark. Reading Hemingway’s Across the River and into the Trees: Glossary and Commentary. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2016. [Annotates and comments, often line by line, upon familiar and obscure details and allusions to provide a comprehensive guide to the people, places, things, events, and other references found in ARIT. Entries are arranged chronologically as they appear in the novel and correspond to the page numbers of Scribner’s 1996 paperback edition so that readers can easily consult the guide as they read the novel chapter by chapter. General readers and scholars alike will appreciate the thoroughness and helpfulness of this close reading which opens with commentary on the novel’s title and closes on Ronald Jackson’s final words. Cirino’s extensive commentary demonstrates how a deeper understanding of ARIT, with its familiar EH themes of love, war, and the role of the artist, helps us to better understand his recognized masterpieces such as SAR, FTA, and OMS. Cirino’s “Introduction” surveys the novel’s composition and publication history, and contemporary critical reception. Includes helpful maps and index.]

Eby, Carl P. and Mark Cirino, eds. Hemingway’s Spain: Imagining the Spanish World. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2016. [Collection of thirteen essays exploring EH’s love of Spain and its influence on both his most famous works such as SAR, DIA, and FWBT and those less popular texts, including DS and his Spanish Civil War short stories. Includes index. See individual contributions arranged alphabetically by author under ESSAYS.]

Fruscione, Joseph, ed. Teaching Hemingway and Modernism. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2015. [Volume of fifteen pedagogically based essays squarely situating EH within the modernist movement artistically, culturally, and historically. Broadly focused for use in the high school and university classroom. Extensive appendices include useful course syllabi, study questions, model assignments, and small group activities. See individual contributions arranged alphabetically by author under ESSAYS.]

Hemingway, Ernest. Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series). Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2015. [Reprints four 1950s interviews with EH: “Ernest Hemingway, The Art of Fiction, No. 21” with George Plimpton (1954); “Hemingway in Cuba” with Robert Manning (1954); “Dropping in On Hemingway” with Lloyd Lockhart (1958); and “Life in the Afternoon: The Last Interview” with Robert Emmett Ginna (1958).]

Hochschild, Adam. Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2016. [Nonfiction narrative providing a detailed history of the politics, propaganda, and horrors of the war through the perspectives...