By this I don’t just mean a great fantasy novel written by an American. From the originating genius of J.R.R. Tolkien to the “grimdark” revisionism of our own day, fantasy as created and ...
In F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, the ambitious but doomed ... reflecting the author’s own ambivalence regarding his Irish-American ancestry. Fitzgerald was keenly aware ...
May dreamed of writing the great American novel, but life got in the way. During the holidays, Ward had a tradition of giving away children’s booklets to its stores’ Christmas shoppers.
Two very different interpretations capture the grandeur, the excess, the carelessness, and the ugliness of Fitzgerald’s great American novel. The real star of the Broadway production is the ...