Hemingway Review Blog

The Hemingway Review blog shares information on topics relevant to Hemingway, his writings, and the study of his work. It’s a more casual, less serious space for playful pieces and personal reflections. We will consider videos, audio recordings, slide presentations, photographs, and short pieces of writing (generally 250-500 words). Reflections on teaching and discussions of popular culture are welcome. Please review the blog's submission guidelines and contact Lisa Tyler, blog editor, at hemingwayreviewblog@gmail.com if you are interested in contributing to the blog. 

Cover of Michael Kleeberg's novel
Michael Kleeberg, 07/21/2026

How Thomas Mann inspired a German novelist's portrait of Hemingway by remate

Photograph of German novelist Michael Kleeberg
Michael Kleeberg, 07/09/2026

A German novelist explores what Hemingway was doing during that week in Taormina with James Gamble in 1918

Image of the cover of Ballester's book
Alfredo A. Ballester, 06/15/2026

A neighbor boy in Cuba remembers learning of Hemingway's death

Photograph of the author as a young boy in Cuba
Alfredo A. Ballester, 06/09/2026

A neighbor recalls meeting Hemingway for the first time

Stephen A. Schendel, M.D., 05/15/2026

Learn how a meeting with Gregorio Fuentes in Cuba inspired a surgeon to write a mystery novel about a search for Hemingway's lost manuscript

Photo of Virginia Evans
05/06/2026

The 2026 PEN/Hemingway Award winner reveals her favorite work by  Hemingway

04/26/2026

The author of The Correspondent talks about winning the 2026 PEN/Hemingway Award

Lisa Tyler, 02/22/2026

Learn about Hemingway's Canadian connections through the books, journal articles, and television series on this list

Lisa Tyler, 02/09/2026

Learn more about Hemingway and Toronto from online blog posts, podcast episodes, websites, and videos 

Sharon Hamilton, 01/15/2026

Sharon Hamilton explores what Toronto would have offered a devoted baseball fan like Hemingway during the 1920s

Photo of Lola Richards with Mary Hemingway
Eileen Martin and Greer Rising, 12/21/2025

Who is the young Black woman at the Hemingways' table at their home in Ketchum?

Two mojitos
John Hargrove and Sharon Hamilton, 11/24/2025

Visit (virtually) the Key West hotel that Hemingway referenced in To Have and Have Not

​​​​​​​John Hargrove and Sharon Hamilton, 11/10/2025

John Hargrove and Sharon Hamilton continue their Hemingway-related adventures in Key West

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Tracie Nicolai, 09/12/2025

How many of us can relate to the young heroic Ernie, embarking on the journey, the one already scarred — but young, still — and with so much potential?

Debra A. Moddelmog, 08/24/2025

Black Africans and Black Americans might have experienced tolerance and admiration in Paris, but the signs of their imagined inferiority were present everywhere

Debra A. Moddelmog, 08/14/2025

Debra A. Moddelmog explores the racial significance of the Taverne: A La Chope du Nègre, a restaurant in The Sun Also Rises

Lisa Tyler, 08/07/2025

Learn why claims that Hemingway visited Jaén, Spain, on October 20, 1960, cannot be accurate--and who visited there instead

Hemingway in Jaén bullring, October 1960
Larry Belcher, 07/23/2025

Larry Belcher explores why Jaén, Spain, did not place a plaque commemorating Hemingway

london
Steven L. Wright, 07/15/2025

Why Hemingway should never have accepted Dr. Peter Gorer's offer of a ride to the Dorchester Hotel

Photograph of the successful escapees
Sharon Hamilton and John Hargrove, 06/18/2025

We had been transported back in time to 1928, given exactly one hour to find and rescue the final page of Hemingway’s masterpiece A Farewell to Arms or else the book might not be published