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God is so absent from the world of “The Great Gatsby” that the closest any character can get to him is to turn to this vague symbol of his omniscience and omnipresence. (The original art on the cover ...
A century on, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great Jazz Age novel still speaks to what ails America.
When F. Scott Fitzgerald​ wrote "The Great Gatsby"​ at the height of the roaring '20s, he couldn't possibly realize that the book would emerge as one of the very top contenders for "the great American ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald was not a favorite of America's editors for many years, but they all read 'Gatsby.' Everyone reads ...
Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a top contender for the title of Great American Novel, turns 100. A century later, it is invoked to help make sense of a world that still confuses “material ...
When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "The Great Gatsby" at the height of the roaring '20s, he couldn't possibly realize that the book would emerge as one of the very top contenders for "the great ...
The follow-up novel cemented his reputation. He began to travel around Europe, famously becoming a regular at the most fashionable Parisian haunts with the likes of Ernest Hemingway. So the relative ...
Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a top contender for the title of Great American Novel, turns 100 on April 10. A century later, it is invoked to help make sense of a world that still ...
In September 1975, at a mansion in Berlin, Connecticut, we had a gala affair. It wasn’t, of course, the sort of mansion one might have found on Long Island’s Gold Coast. Berlin has no such ...