What to Make of Hemingway

The future of artistic sensitivity, cancel culture, and the banning of books

I have always been an Ernest Hemingway fan. No apologies, despite the modern revisionist take on the great writer. There has been endless analysis on his machismo, his drinking, his misogynistic ways, his implied and overt antisemitism, his animal killing, his narcissism. A recent piece in LitHub by David Barnes, an English lecturer at…