The reality of the Great American Novel is that it puts the country and all its flaws under a microscope and that makes it all the more devourable. Without further ado, we’ve curated a selection ...

William Alden's voice was brought across the ocean from London and phonographed to a new world by THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKS. It proclaimed that the "Great American Novel" of so ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. The Great Gatsby is often called the great American novel. Emblematic of an entire ...

Of the five essays that follow, one traces this revival in greater detail, and another sets the book in the context of the perennial quest for the 'great American novel'. Two other essays examine the ...

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 ...

The Great American Read was an eight-part series with viewer participation to select America’s favorite novel, told through the prism of America’s 100 best-loved novels. It investigated ...

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 ...

‘The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim’ Mixes Anime With Tolkien to Mostly Successful Results.... ‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’ Brings an Amblin Movie Feel to that Galaxy Far, Far ...

When people ask what the Great American Novel is, there's really one answer you can take seriously. "The Great Gatsby," which had its 90th birthday on Friday. Compared with F. Scott Fitzgerald's ...

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