Topic - ernest hemingway

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  American movies poised for Cannes' center stage

  American movies are taking center stage at the Cannes Film Festival, with a fistful of U.S. films and stars, including Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain, in the 2012 line up announced Thursday.

• American film to take center stage at Cannes

  American movies are taking center stage at the Cannes Film Festival, with a fistful of U.S. films and stars including Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain in the 2012 line up announced Thursday.

• Hemingway shows soft side in newly public letters

  Ernest Hemingway shows a tenderness that wasn't part of his usual macho persona in a dozen unpublished letters that became publicly available Wednesday in a collection of the author's papers at the Kennedy presidential library.

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  Get Out: 'Faulkner and Hemingway: Biography of a Literary Rivalry'

  In "Faulkner and Hemingway: Biography of a Literary Rivalry," Georgetown University professor Joseph Fruscione argues that the mutual distaste and admiration Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner had for each other spurred each to do his best work.

• American Scene

  Central Falls may be best known for being Rhode Island's only municipality to file for bankruptcy. But a new project is highlighting a very different story: its history as a chocolate manufacturer during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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  Spanish artist Miro's farm needs tender, loving care

  Catalonian artist Joan Miro had a farm. And on this farm he had an easel on which he created large, wonderful paintings of it that are among his most famous works. Now, with Spain in economic crisis, Miro's farm is a neglected relic with an uncertain future.

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  The old man and the Miro

  For Ernest Hemingway it wasn't a question of to have or have not.

• Nicole Kidman says off-screen privacy is key

  Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen play writers Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway in a new HBO film, but they'd prefer to keep their own lives off-screen.

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  Get Out: 'Picturing Gertrude'

  In addition to writing in every imaginable medium from poetry to fiction to librettos, Gertrude Stein is well-known for nurturing the careers of some of America's biggest writers. Less well-known is Stein's impact on the visual arts.

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'Hemingway's Boat'

  In 1987, The Washington Post published a three-part series on the sons of Ernest Hemingway, written by then-staff writer Paul Hendrickson. During the intervening decades and several books later, the Hemingways continued to germinate in the author's mind.

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  Adam Mazmanian's Top 10 movies of 2011

  Washington Times film critic Adam Mazmanian sifts through the year's releases and offer his 10 favorite movies of 2011.

• Cuban officials' bar in Washington toasts 'Papa'

  Washington and Cuba have had an icy relationship for decades, but the Cold War foes now have a place to share something else: chilly drinks.

• Stein collection at Paris' Grand Palais

  The lady with the crazy hat is back, 106 years after she scandalized Parisians. Nearby is another woman of scandal, reclining naked, her body strangely contorted and tinted blue.

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  Sacred or sublime, the King James Bible is a timeless source

  As it marks its 400th anniversary this year, the King James Bible is suddenly a trending topic, the focus of a surge of scholarly, curatorial and public interest that includes a fascinating new exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'Stories My Father Told Me'

  For three decades after Leonard Lyons started writing his syndicated column for the New York Post in 1934, many people savored what he had to tell them about the great and famous in the Lyons Den.

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