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Niren Tolsi returns to a time before the pandemic brought on travel restrictions to ponder what is being lost in a world that is confined to itself
Ernest Hemingway immortalised the Paris-based Herald newspaper in his writing, but future readers will know it as the International New York Times.
Writer Gore Vidal, who filled his intellectual works with acerbic observations on politics, sex and American culture, has died in LA at the age of 86.
American writer Ernest Hemingway’s devotees in Cuba can walk in the footsteps of the author death to honour the 50th anniversary of his death.
There is probably a good reason Ernest Hemingway is known for his novels, short stories and journalism rather than his poetry, and it can be found in a remarkable first edition of his first American book. Clearly, he was not a great poet. Hemingway scribbled two poems — unpublishable at the time because of their rudeness — in the 1925 first edition of In Our Time.