Not only was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” a commercial failure, but it fell into near obscurity a few years after its initial publication. Later, famed literary critic Harold Bloom would ...

In September 1975, at a mansion in Berlin, Connecticut, we had a gala affair. It wasn’t, of course, the sort of mansion one might have found on Long Island’s Gold Coast. Berlin has no such mansions.

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 ...

The Great Gatsby — 100 years old? How can that be? To borrow the words F. Scott Fitzgerald used to describe New York City in the 1920s, The Great Gatsby possesses "all the iridescence of the beginning ...

NEW YORK — The orgiastic delights of Jay Gatsby’s parties mostly lurk between the lines of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s clipped prose. But there is nothing coy about the extravagant stage musical that opened ...