F. Scott Fitzgerald

One hundred years ago, "The Great Gatsby" was first published. It remains one of the books that almost every literate American has read.

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

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

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

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

A scorched shoe is a crucial part of Zelda Fitzgerald’s modern mythology. But there’s no proof it existed.

The neglected Catholic overtones of an American classic.

The classroom staple turns a hundred.

Reflections on the literary legacy of a timeless American novel.

On Robert Moses, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the culture of environmental waste.

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.

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

While she always insisted that she wasn’t a ‘real’ critic, Dorothy Parker is more astute than most on matters of style.

Joan Didion’s journal entries posthumously has sparked a wider ethical debate: Is it acceptable to publish a writer’s unfinished work after their death?

How Irving Thalberg helped turn M-G-M into the world’s most famous movie studio—and gave the film business a new sense of artistry and scale.

The old Midwest was a place animated by the belief that a self-governing republic is the best regime for man.

John Gunther’s “Death Be Not Proud” defied a nation’s reluctance to describe personal loss.

Taking seriously the midlife crisis.

Nixon portrayed himself as a victim of the press. But from the 1952 Checkers speech through his post-presidency, he proved to be an able manipulator of the media.

When George Horace Lorimer took over as editor of the Saturday Evening Post, America was a patchwork of communities. There was no sense of nation or unity.