I went to see Baz Luhrmann’s beautiful film The Great Gatsby a few weeks ago. The reviews had been lukewarm, as if the critics were reluctant to admire a movie that (very cleverly) used pounding rock ...

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. His namesake (and second cousin three times removed on his father’s side) was Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics ...

Gatsby’s lavish parties and obsessive pursuit of love mirror Fitzgerald’s real-life struggle with class, insecurity and the painful gap between who he was and who he hoped to become Decades after ...

Each time I re-read The Great Gatsby, I am pleased to find it lives up to the hype of memory, which is appropriate for a novel about the inability of the past to live up to its reputation. The credit ...