Book

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1925

Charles Scribner's Sons

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Comment

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 Literary Hub 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

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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

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