Tag Archives: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Hemingway on What War Atrocities Mean

Undisciplined conscripts are likely to commit atrocities–and also, as Hemingway notes in “Farewell to Arms,” to lose.

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On Men and Novel Reading

Thoughts on the differences between women and men reading novels.

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Imagine Hemingway in Ukraine

Ukrainian resistance to the Russians has me reading “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” and I’m seeing a lot of similarities.

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The Novels that Shaped John McCain

McCain’s favorite novels included “Great Gatsby,” “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” “Huckleberry Finn,” and works by Somerset Maugham. One can understand why.

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Great Pro-War Literature Doesn’t Exist

In which I argue that great pro-war literature doesn’t exist, including “The iliad” and “War and Peace.” (Both works are magnificent; I just don’t see them as pro-war.)

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Through WWII, My Father Carried Poetry

Literature played a major role in my father’s World War II experiences.

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