First published, 1st October 2018 Hemingway’s swan song, The Old Man and the Sea, was more perfectly written than it has been read. I mean, it seems to me that those who have buzzed about it, like flies around some Faberjé egg, may have given the fable less thought than it deserves. The work is true … Continue reading it’s a marlin, not a shark — on the anatomy of misreading The Old Man and the Sea