I recently heard Peggy Noonan, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal and presidential speechwriter, quote a line from Ernest Hemingway's book The Sun Also Rises: “Gradually, then suddenly.” She used ...

Ernest Hemingway fans will recognise this as the apparently contradictory yet ruefully truthful reply that Mike Campbell gives when he’s asked “How did you go bankrupt?” in Ernest Hemingway’s iconic ...

There’s a line in Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises” where a character explains how he went bankrupt: “Two ways,” the character says. “Gradually, then suddenly.” Hemingway wrote that line when he ...