The party has begun, old sport. For many high school students nationwide, “The Great Gatsby” has been diminished to just another repetitive exercise in literary analysis, sifting through the chapters ...
Not only was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” a commercial failure, but it fell into near obscurity a few years after its initial publication. Later, famed literary critic Harold Bloom would ...
For 100 years, "The Great Gatsby" has inspired generations of authors and readers alike. Fans of the novel share what the storied classic means to them. F. Scott Fitzgerald's beloved classic "The ...
Remember SparkNotes? In high school, you probably used the literature guides to quickly cram for the English quiz you forgot to study for ... because you also forgot to read the book. Good times, ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by This musical adaptation, now on Broadway, is a lot of Jazz Age fun. But it forgot that Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel endures because it is a tragedy. By ...
In doing so, they’ve made a devilish bargain, trading the novel’s soul for flashy visuals — and it almost even works. The design team here has pulled out all the stops and achieved something nearly ...
And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly back into a book that its author considered calling "Trimalchio in West Egg." Would we still be talking about it if he had? But he ...
Monash University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 masterpiece of the Jazz Age, ushers readers into a corrupt but glittering ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by This immersive staging of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic invites audience members to join the party, but the pathos of the novel is stretched too thin.
National Correspondent, "CBS News Sunday Morning" Lee Cowan is an Emmy-award-winning journalist serving as a national correspondent and substitute anchor for "CBS News Sunday Morning." Dotting the ...
“Can’t repeat the past? Why, of course you can!” is a line famously spoken by the title character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” This year, writers are repeating the past — a lot — with ...