The Great Gatsby

Ninety-six years after the book's publication, the characters of "The Great Gatsby" continue to mesmerize readers.

How a personal connection to Nick Carraway inspired the author to write the novel "Nick."

An insightful exploration of the ways America has read ‘the Great American Novel.’

The enchanted terms in which F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed modern America still blind us to how scathingly he judged it.

How queer artist J.C. Leyendecker invented an iconography of twentieth-century American masculinity.

Mike St. Thomas reviews ‘Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald.'

It’s been 25 years since Puff Daddy went to the Hamptons. What’s changed?

As the U.S. anticipates a vaccinated summer, historians say measuring the impact of the 1918 influenza on the uproarious decade that followed is tricky.

In 1948, the landfill at Fresh Kills was marketed to Staten Island as a stopgap measure. No one guessed that it would remain open for more than half a century.

Ever look at the tome on a coffee table and wonder why coffee table books are a thing? Consider this brief history of coffee table books.

Reflections on the centennial of America’s greatest sports scandal.

Why the Jim Crow-era debate between the African-American leader and a ridiculous, Nazi-loving racist isn’t as famous as Lincoln-Douglas.

For a century, we’ve loved our cars. They haven’t loved us back.

The story of the Armed Services Editions.

Alfredo Villanueva-Collado on his J.C. Leyendecker collection and the fascinating story behind this oft-neglected male image maker.