Justice for Ernest Hemingway

Assesses the true state of Hemingway’s output in his final two decades, suggesting that the writer’s artistic genius culminated with The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Laments the publication of nearly all of Hemingway’s later texts, including The Old Man and the Sea. And calls for the scholarly reediting of all of Hemingway’s posthumous works, like that undertaken with Under Kilimanjaro, so that readers can observe for themselves Hemingway’s battle to regain his former artistry