F. Scott Fitzgerald’s romance with a North Shore debutante provided fodder for “The Great Gatsby,” which this year turned 100 ...

John Keats wrote in his poem “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” that when he encountered George Chapman’s translation of ...

Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into ...

A century after its release, "The Great Gatsby" haunts readers. That green light in the distance still blinks incessantly, no ...

It’s a period closely associated with The Great Gatsby ... Leonardo DiCaprio’s onscreen pool when he played Gatsby in Luhrmann’s movie. Oheka Castle is said to have inspired the Gatsby ...

A classic clone-comedy cavalcade ensues. The film’s tone is slapstick dystopian, like a Harold Lloyd movie written by Philip K. Dick, and its star would be playing both a doofus and a psycho ...

All right. Here is something that you probably hear a lot when someone talks about a book that got made into a movie - the book is better - to the point that it's honestly pretty impressive when a ...

The Great Gatsby is 100 years old ... There’s something reassuring about knowing that Gatsby is the book we’ve chosen to put in classrooms and movie theaters, to make it one of those culture ...

My answer, predictably enough, is that The Great Gatsby is not simply some chore to be endured at a formative point in education, but one of those rare books that can be appreciated, even loved ...

Movies adapted from books have a reputation for falling short. NPR's Scott Detrow talks with NPR's Barrie Hardymon and Andrew Limbong about what's good and bad about books turned into movies.

Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great ... jazz age setting, brilliant evocation of romantic and sexual obsession, and the luxurious richness of its prose. Although Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 movie adaptation ...