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