The Great Gatsby, 100 years old this year, prompts this observation: it’s a great American novel because it deepens in meaning with the passing years. It’s a mistake, I believe, to introduce such a ...

The Great Gatsby is a story that seldom needs summarizing. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s name and novels are often spoken in the same sentence as the phrase “great American.” With The Great Gatsby being his ...

Just a few months shy of its 100th anniversary, “The Great Gatsby” remains firmly in the literary canon. Every high school teenager who endured an American literature class has, at some point, read ...

For 100 years, "The Great Gatsby" has inspired generations of authors and readers alike. Fans of the novel share what the storied classic means to them. F. Scott Fitzgerald's beloved classic "The ...

He is A relative of Kaiser Wilhelm and spied for Germany during the first world war. His dazzling house is actually a boat that creeps along the Long Island shore. He killed a man once; he is “second ...

And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly back into a book that its author considered calling "Trimalchio in West Egg." Would we still be talking about it if he had? But he ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with two educators about teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby 100 years after its publication. We're getting close to the end of this evening's show, ...