F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ninety-six years after the book's publication, the characters of "The Great Gatsby" continue to mesmerize readers.

The enchanted terms in which F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed modern America still blind us to how scathingly he judged it.

An insightful exploration of the ways America has read ‘the Great American Novel.’

Mike St. Thomas reviews ‘Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald.'

On Robert Moses, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the culture of environmental waste.

In 1948, the landfill at Fresh Kills was marketed to Staten Island as a stopgap measure. No one guessed that it would remain open for more than half a century.

How queer artist J.C. Leyendecker invented an iconography of twentieth-century American masculinity.

The old Midwest was a place animated by the belief that a self-governing republic is the best regime for man.

John Gunther’s “Death Be Not Proud” defied a nation’s reluctance to describe personal loss.

Taking seriously the midlife crisis.

Nixon portrayed himself as a victim of the press. But from the 1952 Checkers speech through his post-presidency, he proved to be an able manipulator of the media.

When George Horace Lorimer took over as editor of the Saturday Evening Post, America was a patchwork of communities. There was no sense of nation or unity.

We have no historical precedent for this moment.

As the U.S. anticipates a vaccinated summer, historians say measuring the impact of the 1918 influenza on the uproarious decade that followed is tricky.

The story of America can be told through the story of its periodicals.

It used to be okay to admit that the world had simply become too much.

How a personal connection to Nick Carraway inspired the author to write the novel "Nick."

Thirty years after "Ice Ice Baby," Robert Van Winkle is ready to talk about it all—his rise, his fall, and that infamous night on the balcony.

The rise and fall of the Brooks Brothers name.

On Daniel Okrent's "The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America."