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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1925
Charles Scribner's Sons
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‘The Great Gatsby’ at One Hundred
The neglected Catholic overtones of an American classic.
by
Paul Baumann
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Commonweal
on
July 15, 2025
Comment
How “The Great Gatsby” Took Over High School
The classroom staple turns a hundred.
by
Alexander Manshel
via
The New Yorker
on
April 29, 2025
First Person
On My Grandfather’s Novel: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s "The Great Gatsby" at 100
Reflections on the literary legacy of a timeless American novel.
by
Eleanor Lanahan
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Literary Hub
on
April 7, 2025
Comment
America the Beautiful
One hundred years ago, "The Great Gatsby" was first published. It remains one of the books that almost every literate American has read.
by
John Pistelli
via
The Metropolitan Review
on
April 7, 2025
Book Excerpt
How “The Great Gatsby” Changed the Landscape of New York City
On Robert Moses, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the culture of environmental waste.
by
John Marsh
via
Monthly Review
on
November 13, 2024
First Person
On Imagining Gatsby Before Gatsby
How a personal connection to Nick Carraway inspired the author to write the novel "Nick."
by
Michael Farris Smith
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Literary Hub
on
January 11, 2021
Comment
Why Do We Keep Reading the Great Gatsby?
Ninety-six years after the book's publication, the characters of "The Great Gatsby" continue to mesmerize readers.
by
Wesley Morris
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The Paris Review
on
January 11, 2021
Book Review
Greil Marcus Takes a Deep Dive Into "the Stubborn Myth of The Great Gatsby"
An insightful exploration of the ways America has read ‘the Great American Novel.’
by
Allen Barra
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The National Book Review
on
July 17, 2020
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If the Slipper Doesn’t Fit
A scorched shoe is a crucial part of Zelda Fitzgerald’s modern mythology. But there’s no proof it existed.
by
Gabby Kiser
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HNN
on
September 9, 2025
The History of New York, Told Through Its Trash
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.
by
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
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The New Yorker
on
April 24, 2021
A Brief History of Coffee Table Books: Origin, Precursors, and Popularity
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.
by
Addison Rizer
via
Book Riot
on
April 13, 2021
The Oracle of Our Unease
The enchanted terms in which F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed modern America still blind us to how scathingly he judged it.
by
Sarah Churchwell
via
New York Review of Books
on
September 24, 2020
Black Sox Forever
Reflections on the centennial of America’s greatest sports scandal.
by
Harry Stein
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City Journal
on
September 26, 2019
When W.E.B. Du Bois Made a Laughing Stock of a White Supremacist
Why the Jim Crow-era debate between the African-American leader and a ridiculous, Nazi-loving racist isn’t as famous as Lincoln-Douglas.
by
Ian Frazier
via
The New Yorker
on
August 19, 2019
What Maketh a Man
How queer artist J.C. Leyendecker invented an iconography of twentieth-century American masculinity.
by
Tyler Malone
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
June 10, 2019
Borne Back Into the Past
Mike St. Thomas reviews ‘Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald.'
by
Mike St. Thomas
via
Commonweal
on
January 4, 2018
