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5 Sunday Reads, Including Hemingway in Love, Is Hamlet Fat? and a New Essay by TS Eliot

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Hitler at Home1. Hitler at Home

From Places: “Adolf Hitler was an extreme anti-Semite, convicted traitor, and leader of a violent paramilitary force. In a remarkable press campaign, the Nazis reinvented him as a genial Bavarian gentleman.”
 
 
 
 
The Sacred Wood2. “The Contemporary Novel”: an essay by TS Eliot – Published in English for the first time

From The Times Literary Supplement: “The original English typescript of TS Eliot’s “The Contemporary Novel”, located in the Houghton Library, Harvard, was translated into French as “Le roman anglais contemporain” for the Nouvelle revue française of May 1, 1927. [...] it remained in his mother’s collection and unpublished in English until now.”
 
 

Hemingway in Love3. Hemingway in Love

From The Smithsonian: “In a new memoir, one of Hemingway’s closest friends reveals how the great writer grappled with the love affair that changed his life and shaped his art.”
 
 
 
 

Hamlet4. Is Hamlet Fat?

From Slate: “What if our mental image of Hamlet is wrong? What if the grieving, vengeful prince is actually fat? Just because you’ve never considered the possibility doesn’t mean that Shakespeare scholars haven’t argued about it, just one front in a centuries-old debate about how you determine meaning in Shakespeare’s plays.”

 
 

A Walk in the Woods5. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

From Lit Hub: An excerpt from Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods.

On the afternoon of July 5, 1983, three adult supervisors and a group of youngsters set up camp at a popular spot beside Lake Canimina in the fragrant pine forests of western Quebec, about eighty miles north of Ottawa, in a park called La Verendrye Provincial Reserve. They cooked dinner and, afterwards, in the correct fashion, secured their food in a bag and carried it a hundred or so feet into the woods, where they suspended it above the ground between two trees, out of the reach of bears.

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