In 1950, Ernest Hemingway told Lillian Ross, in a Profile for this magazine, “I learned to write by looking at paintings in the Luxembourg Museum in Paris.” (Never mind that he published his first short story when he was in high school.) Now a museum is looking at him. On Sept. 25, the Morgan Library opens “Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars,” an in-depth assessment of a key period in the writer’s development, from 1918, when, at the age of eighteen, he joined the Red Cross and was wounded in Italy, through his years in Paris, Key West, and Havana, to his Second World War reportage. In addition to manuscripts (the first two handwritten pages of “A Farewell to Arms” are on view), correspondence (F. Scott Fitzgerald praises “The Sun Also Rises”), first editions, and photographs, the show includes personal artifacts, like the author’s 1923 passport, above.
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By Michael Schulman
In 2013, Lupita Nyong’o made one of the most memorable film débuts in recent years, in Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave.” As Patsey, a slave at a Louisiana plantation whose life is triply cursed by her master’s lust and his wife’s sadistic jealousy, Nyong’o showed the raw desperation that Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Solomon Northup buried beneath stoic forbearance.
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