“I write suspicious books that take place in foreign countries: France and Italy, Communist Cuba and fascist Spain. I lived among the Cuban Communists all those years. I speak languages J. Edgar ...

A photograph of war reporters on the front line during the Spanish Civil War is frequently circulated with an erroneous caption claiming that famous authors Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell can both ...

From left to right: Dutch director Joris Ivens, Ernest Hemingway and Ludwig Renn, chief of staff in the International Brigades, in a photo taken at the beginning of 1937, during the Spanish Civil War.

It’s axiomatic among travellers that bad trips make better stories. Never was that more true than in 1925, when a struggling ...

The protagonist of Ernest Hemingway’s novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is Robert Jordan, a young American who left his job to fight with the Republican side, against the Nazi-supported Nationalists, in ...

PAMPLONA, Spain, July 12 (Reuters) - The bell tolls - eight chimes. A fuse is lit and a rocket takes off. The pen doors open and out burst 12 behemoths - six bulls and six steers - working their pace ...

In his autobiography, I, Claud, Claud Cockburn describes being recruited to write for the Daily Worker in late 1936: It was about this time that Mr. Pollitt, Secretary of the Communist Party of Great ...

Jose Luis Castillo-Puche, 84, a prize-winning Spanish novelist who wrote a memoir about his friend, American author Ernest Hemingway, died Monday in Madrid of pneumonia. A prolific writer and ...

Edinburgh Napier University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Earlier this year, as the world came to terms with the coronavirus pandemic, a letter purporting to have been written ...

When Hemingway saw his first bullfight in Pamplona in 1923, he brought his wife Hadley along because he hoped the event would have a positive influence on the unborn son she then carried. The sport ...