Seeing What “The Sun Also Rises” Might Have Been But Wasn’t

WORDS Posted: August 8, 2014 12:46 am

Ian Crouch explores the various drafts, notes and edits included in a new edition of Hemingway’s novel.

A Political Observation
The United Nations Secretariat Building overlooks the East River in New York City. On my walks through Manhattan I sometimes stop and gaze at it to admire the impressive facade. ... [read more]
AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2019-04-21
Weekend Extra: Clifford Brown
The recent post featuring the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet in the 1950s led a couple of Rifftides readers to suggest that we hear more of Brown’s sparkling trumpet playing. He ... [read more]
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2019-04-19
Not exactly Billary
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I review two Broadway openings, Lucas Hnath’s Hillary and Clinton and a revival of Lanford Wilson’s Burn This. Here’s an excerpt. * * * ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-04-19
Replay: Humphrey Bogart on baseball
Humphrey Bogart endorses major-league baseball in an undated TV commercial filmed and originally telecast in the Fifties: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-04-19
Almanac: George Orwell on power
“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-04-19
Tracing Bloodlines
The Stephen Petronio Company at Skirball American choreographers in the modern dance world have tended to disavow their heritages as they made new discoveries. In the 1930s, Martha Graham and ... [read more]
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2019-04-18
The Complexity Fetish
Nonprofit Quarterly has a thoughtful overview of complexity and sensemaking as they relate to organizations, the first of a four-part series on the subject. The general idea is that purpose-driven ... [read more]
AJBlog: The Artful ManagerPublished 2019-04-18
Theater tip: go straight to hell
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway transfer of Hadestown. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Does the Broadway musical have a future? Only if a new generation of ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-04-18
So you want to see a show?
Here’s my list of recommended Broadway, off-Broadway, and out-of-town shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews (if sometimes qualifiedly so) in The Wall Street Journal ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-04-18
Almanac: Eric Hoffer on power
“The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep.” Eric Hoffer, The Ordeal of Change ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-04-18
To Be Returned? Met’s Own Notre-Dame Sculpture Figures in Museum’s Program on the Cathedral
In yesterday’s post, I had suggested that the Metropolitan Museum could show its support for the fire-ravaged Notre-Dame Cathedral by returning to it the Head of King David now in ... [read more]
AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2019-04-17
The Correct Coltrane Link
A couple of readers have notified us that the link to the album reviewed in yesterday’s John Coltrane post was incorrect. Sorry if you were inconvenienced. This is the correct ... [read more]
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2019-04-17
Snapshot: Blossom Dearie sings Blossom Dearie
Blossom Dearie sings and plays “I Like You, You’re Nice” on an episode of Parkinson, originally telecast by the BBC in 1972. The music is by Dearie, the lyrics by ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-04-17
Almanac: Samuel R. Delany on power
“What real power can buy, of course, is anonymity.” Samuel R. Delany, Neveryóna ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-04-17
More joy
I talked in my last post about Steven Isserlis making a concert joyful, because he felt joy himself. Two nights after I heard him, on March 8, went to the ... [read more]
AJBlog: SandowPublished 2019-04-16
My friend Harry
Harry Jenks, for many years the ballpark organist for the Kansas City Royals, died in 1980. He was already mostly forgotten by then, and scarcely anyone recognized his name when ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-04-16
Lookback: on fact-checking a biography at the last minute
From 2009: A good biographer will do just about anything to comb snippets of apocrypha out of his book. Fortunately, Louis Armstrong almost always told the truth about himself, ... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-04-16
Yeast Never Dies
Yeast isn’t a food or an ingredient, except in tiny ways. It plays on food, like a conductor, or a cook. So when you realize that yeast floats in ... [read more]
AJBlog: Out TherePublished 2019-04-15
Joyful music
I heard three joyful classical concerts a month ago, on three successive nights. Such happiness in a single week! I’ll talk now about one of these evenings, Steven Isserlis playing ... [read more]
AJBlog: SandowPublished 2019-04-15
Why Is this Museum Exhibition So Troubling?
Several weeks ago, I visited the Dallas Museum of Art to see an exhibition of works by Jonas Wood (b. 1977) and to review it for The Wall Street Journal. ... [read more]
AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2019-04-11

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