93 Years Ago Today On September 23, 1932, Ernest Hemingway released Death in the Afternoon, his legendary exploration of bullfighting and, more deeply, the universal confrontation with fear and mortality. What might appear to be a book about a sport is, in truth, Hemingway’s meditation on art, courage, and the human condition. He studied the rituals of the bullring not simply as spectacle, but as a mirror held up to life itself — where grace, danger, and death meet in sharp relief. At the heart

In 1954, legendary writer Ernest Hemingway survived not one but two plane crashes in two days while traveling in Africa. News outlets around the world reported his death after the second crash, believing no one could survive such accidents. Yet, almost 24 hours later, Hemingway shocked journalists by emerging from the jungle carrying bananas and a bottle of gin, injured but very much alive. The back-to-back crashes left him with burns, cracked ribs, and kidney damage, but his survival only added