Introduction -- The garden of Eden at twenty-five / Tom Jenks -- Reviews. Ernest Hemingway: R.I.P. / E. L. Doctorow -- The sinister sex / John Updike -- Editing and manuscript issues. The endings of Hemingway's Garden of Eden / Robert E. Fleming -- The thematic integrity of The garden of Eden / K. J. Peters -- The Garden of Eden: a question of dates / John Leonard -- Narrative structure. mimesis and metafiction in Hemingway's The garden of Eden / Robert B. Jones -- The hunting story in The garden of Eden / James Nagel -- Hemingway's Garden of Eden: resistance of things past and protecting the masculine text / Rose Marie Burwell -- Looking through The garden's mirrors: the early-postmodernist Hemingway text / Beatriz Penas Ibanez -- Gender, sexuality, and race. Hemingway's Barbershop Quintet: The Garden of Eden manuscript / Mark Spilka -- Hemingway's gender trouble / J. Gerald Kennedy -- Tribal things: Hemingway's erotics of truth / Nancy Comley and Robert Scholes -- Opening bluebeard's closet: writing and aggression in Hemingway's The garden of Eden manuscript / Steven C. Roe -- Hemingway's The garden of Eden: writing with the body / Kathy Willingham -- "Come back to the beach ag'in, David honey!": Hemingway's fetishization of race in The garden of Eden manuscripts / Carl Eby -- Protecting the Hemingway myth: casting out forbidden desires from The garden of Eden / Debra A. Moddelmog -- Sexual transgression and artistic creativity in The garden of Eden / Daniel Kempton -- In search of lost time: reading Hemingway's Garden / Ira Elliott -- Fathers, lovers, and friend killers: rearticulating gender and race via species in Hemingway / Cary Wolfe -- The Fitzgerald connection. The garden of Eden as a response to Tender is the night / Robert E. Fleming -- Madwomen on the Riviera: the Fitzgeralds, Hemingway, and the matter of modernism / Nancy R. Comley.