After receiving mixed reviews from literary critics, the book sold poorly. Fitzgerald died in 1940 believing it was a flop, said Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air program and ...

No surprise, then, that The Great Gatsby has been and continues to be on lists of books challenged and pulled from school libraries as our frenzy of book banning rages on. Blame all that drinking ...

No wonder, then, that Tom Buchanan — that boorish, bullying embodiment of white, male, Old-Money privilege — introduces himself in Chapter One of the novel by spouting ideas from a popular book on ...