Michael Atkinson is a New York film writer and author of seven books, including HEMINGWAY DEADLIGHTS and HEMINGWAY CUTTHROAT, from St. Martin’s Press.

Big Two-Hearted Hemingway

Hemingway hasn’t been, not since the 1940s, a mere writer and man, but a preposterous piece of Americana, a living riposte to a 20th century that seemed to otherwise deplete opportunities for masculine privilege and duty as the years of industrialisation, commercialisation, domestication, and entertainment-media saturation rolled on.