Old Man and the Sea, The

Ruppersberg has made lots of drawings of books over the years — Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea,” “The Elements of Style” by Strunk & White, Horatio Alger’s “Strive and Succeed” and Charles Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du Mal” among them.

Sixty-five years ago this week, The Times published its review of “The Old Man and the Sea,” the last Ernest Hemingway book published in his lifetime.

“Like Moby-Dick or The Old Man and the Sea, The Goshawk was a literary encounter between animal and man that reached back to Puritan traditions of spiritual contest.”