Continuing their attempts to chronicle every foundational moment or figure in American history, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s exhaustive six-hour documentary, “Hemingway,” traces the historical formation of the titular author. Utilizing Burns’s now routine formal devices – photo pans and zooms, talking heads, Peter Coyote narration – “Hemingway” grafts the author’s life onto his novels in ways that may trouble literary critics who have moved on from biographical criticism but will be captivating for fans of Burns’ particular form of reporting. That Burns and Novick chose this specific moment to chronicle someone who is seemingly the face of the white male literary canon, and whose literary stock has significantly fallen in the past few decades, is an odd choice, especially as numerous BIPOC filmmakers have recently petitioned PBS to stop their dependence on Burns’ particular type of national hagiography. Despite lingering extratextual questions regarding Burns and Novick’s reasons, “Hemingway” is nevertheless an encyclopedic dive into one of America’s most well-known authors, for better or worse.