Menu
Excerpts
Exhibits
Collections
Originals
Categories
Map
Search
Book
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1925
Charles Scribner's Sons
Associated Ideas, People, and Places
Loading...
Featured Excerpts
Book Excerpt
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
First Person
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
Comment
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
Book Review
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
Associated Excerpts
Viewing 1–3 of 3
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