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How “The Great Gatsby” Changed the Landscape of New York City
On Robert Moses, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the culture of environmental waste.
by
John Marsh
via
Monthly Review
on
November 13, 2024
Why Do We Keep Reading the Great Gatsby?
Ninety-six years after the book's publication, the characters of "The Great Gatsby" continue to mesmerize readers.
by
Wesley Morris
via
The Paris Review
on
January 11, 2021
On Imagining Gatsby Before Gatsby
How a personal connection to Nick Carraway inspired the author to write the novel "Nick."
by
Michael Farris Smith
via
Literary Hub
on
January 11, 2021
Greil Marcus Takes a Deep Dive Into "the Stubborn Myth of The Great Gatsby"
An insightful exploration of the ways America has read ‘the Great American Novel.’
by
Allen Barra
via
The National Book Review
on
July 17, 2020
The Oracle of Our Unease
The enchanted terms in which F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed modern America still blind us to how scathingly he judged it.
by
Sarah Churchwell
via
New York Review of Books
on
September 24, 2020
What Maketh a Man
How queer artist J.C. Leyendecker invented an iconography of twentieth-century American masculinity.
by
Tyler Malone
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
June 10, 2019
Borne Back Into the Past
Mike St. Thomas reviews ‘Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald.'
by
Mike St. Thomas
via
Commonweal
on
January 4, 2018
My Babies Are Richer Than Yours: On the Lie of the Online Tradwife
A new theory of the leisure class influencer.
by
Lauren Carroll Harris
via
Literary Hub
on
January 10, 2025
Hip-Hop’s Midlife Slump
It’s been 25 years since Puff Daddy went to the Hamptons. What’s changed?
by
Xochitl Gonzalez
via
The Atlantic
on
July 3, 2023
What Caused the Roaring Twenties? Not the End of a Pandemic (Probably)
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.
by
Lila Thulin
via
Smithsonian
on
May 3, 2021
The History of New York, Told Through Its Trash
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.
by
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
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The New Yorker
on
April 24, 2021
A Brief History of Coffee Table Books: Origin, Precursors, and Popularity
Ever look at the tome on a coffee table and wonder why coffee table books are a thing? Consider this brief history of coffee table books.
by
Addison Rizer
via
Book Riot
on
April 13, 2021
Black Sox Forever
Reflections on the centennial of America’s greatest sports scandal.
by
Harry Stein
via
City Journal
on
September 26, 2019
When W.E.B. Du Bois Made a Laughing Stock of a White Supremacist
Why the Jim Crow-era debate between the African-American leader and a ridiculous, Nazi-loving racist isn’t as famous as Lincoln-Douglas.
by
Ian Frazier
via
The New Yorker
on
August 19, 2019
Was the Automotive Era a Terrible Mistake?
For a century, we’ve loved our cars. They haven’t loved us back.
by
Nathan Heller
via
The New Yorker
on
July 22, 2019
How the Second World War Made America Literate
The story of the Armed Services Editions.
by
Terry Teachout
via
Commentary
on
July 1, 2018
Before Rockwell, a Gay Artist Defined the Perfect American Male
Alfredo Villanueva-Collado on his J.C. Leyendecker collection and the fascinating story behind this oft-neglected male image maker.
by
Hunter Oatman-Stanford
,
Alfredo Villanueva-Collado
via
Collectors Weekly
on
August 28, 2012
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