10 Books That You Might Have Missed but Shouldn’t

By Paul Hendrickson
Ernest Hemingway was a tangle of antithetical angels and demons—a prose genius, a monumental egotist, a generous friend, and an alcoholic depressive. Hendrickson brings all this into focus using Hemingway’s beloved Pilar, his boat in Cuba for the last 27 years of his life and on which he fished, chased German subs, and acted the hero. This unfailingly intelligent meditation on the achievement of genius and the corrosion of fame brings a man we thought we knew to life in a wholly different light.