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Hemingway, a documentary series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, premiered on PBS April 5. Its three parts, each approximately two hours, are now available online. It is eminently worth watching.
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was one of the most important American novelists and short-story writers of the 20th century, and a literary figure with an immense global influence and following. He is best known for his three most significant novels,
The Sun Also Rises (1926),
A Farewell to Arms (1929) and
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), as well as innumerable and often scintillating short stories and nonfiction works. Hemingway wrote about the two world wars and the Spanish Civil War. He also wrote about love affairs, personal betrayal and suicide, as well as bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing.
When Civil Rights, the Vietnam War, and a Presidential Election Converged on Notre Dame
In One Week in America, Patrick Parr guides readers through several earth-shattering events and their impact on the 1968 Notre Dame Literary Festival.
One Week in America: The 1968 Notre Dame Literary Festival and a Changing Nation Patrick Parr
March 2021
1968 was a turbulent year in the United States. The Cold War and the nuclear arms race were ever-present, the hard battle of civil rights activists against racism continued, and opposition to the war in Vietnam reached far and wide.
In
One Week in America, historical writer Patrick Parr examines what may be the most turbulent week of that turbulent year, coinciding with the University of Notre Dame literary festival. The inherently political – or deliberately politicized – elements of the festival were intensified by concurrent national events, in particular the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the subsequent rioting, lo
Tarnished Gold
At a time when Communism continues to maintain a patina of coolness despite the tens of millions murdered by its adherents and the billions who have lived under its tyrannies, Patrick Chura has written a sympathetic biography of American Communism’s foremost literary hatchet man.
Michael Gold: The People’s Writer is a volume in the SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture. Chura, a professor of English at the University of Akron, offers a pro forma mea culpa by admitting that Gold might have been wrong in his idolization of Stalin before asserting that American Communists like Gold were “collectively, a peaceful, democratic, and consistently progressive force for good in United States social history.” Gold’s life and work supposedly offer lessons for today on how to defeat “racism, anti-Semitism, fascism, and xenophobia.” Such praise is not warranted, not for Gold and not for the CPUSA.