When The Great Gatsby was printed in 1925, critics roasted it resoundingly. “One finishes Great Gatsby with a feeling of ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, published 100 years ago this week, was not popular in the author’s lifetime. But it has come to ...

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

Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a top contender for the title of Great American Novel, turns 100. A century later, it is ...

Jay Gatsby wanted to repeat the past, return to an idealized world of perfection with Daisy, hold on to a “first kiss” forever. It’s a trap. Trump wants to return America to an illusory Golden ...

God is so absent from the world of “The Great Gatsby” that the closest any character can get to him is to turn to this vague ...

The fractured sense of time that F. Scott Fitzgerald creates challenges literary convention. It also reflects a world in flux ...

In 1925, “The Great Gatsby” was four years away from another ... “Frankly too much of a focus on past guilt and we need to move beyond that,” he said. 1925 intersects with 2025.

"The Great Gatsby" portrays the stark contrast between ... borne back ceaselessly into the past.” — Caleb Bedford is a graduate of Mississippi College, where he escaped with a degree in ...

(The original art on the cover of “The Great Gatsby” was a painting ... the god of self-sufficiency. Gatsby claims self-sufficiency by erasing his past and reinventing a new identity.

Friends of the St. Paul Library are putting on a live reading of the novel that is expected to last seven hours straight.