Great works of art are great, in part, because they continue to have something to say to the present: They’re both timebound ...

Each year, 100 years after its publication this month in April 1925, “The Great Gatsby” sells around half a million copies, but at the time of Fitzgerald’s death in 1940, it had sold fewer than 25,000 ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s romance with a North Shore debutante provided fodder for “The Great Gatsby,” which this year turned 100 ...

A quarter of “The Great Gatsby” has passed before ... Tom Buchanan is a cheat and a bully—on whom breeding and background confer a social status and meretricious ease that Gatsby’s ...

The themes of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” — wealth inequality and social aspirations — remain strikingly relevant. This month marks its 100th birthday. A century after ...

The classic as past and prologue. A century ago, on April 10, 1925, The Great Gatsby was published by Scribner. One month later, Carl Van Vechten, a novelist, photographer, and Zelig-like ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby explores the idea of the American Dream in the 1920s: A time when the country was recovering from World War 1, and a period of changes to the economy and ...