Ernest Hemingway

Artists, writers, musicians — they are all in search of the elusive muse. Writer Mason Currey looked at the daily rituals of creative people throughout history to try and pinpoint what about their habits helped with the creative process. The Guardian’s Oliver Burkeman recently tested some of these rituals on himself.

Ernest Hemingway captures the imagination of many Americans. His summer of 1959 was well-documented in photos, but for the longest time no one knew who was in the photos, or where they were taken. Now more information has come to life, thanks to extensive research.

Librarian Megh Testerman has gone through thousands of photographs taken during Ernest Hemingway’s bullfighting summer 1959 in Spain.

98-year-old James Benet left the United States in his 20s to fight on the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War. The Republicans were backed not only by foreigners, like Benet, but also by Mexico and the Soviet Union. After his side lost, Benet came back to a United States where he was immediately viewed as a communist.

George Saunders writes short stories mostly set in a weird America of the near future and the futuristic present.