Fitzgerald’s classic novel, set during a hedonistic zenith before the Great Depression, has fresh appeal today

Critics said the Great American Novel was dead. Then David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen burst onto the scene

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Bump appeared on "Salon Talks" to discuss his debut novel, what it takes to feel safe these days & "American Dirt"

Fitzgerald scholars debate the merits and many foibles of the "Moulin Rouge" director's glitzy new take

He's a flawed, handsome idealist with a puzzling life story, hounded by his enemies as a sinister outsider

An '80s pop classic reveals the depth of our division: Is there still room for Neil Diamond's expansive "America"?

Harmony Korine's latest hews closer to the themes of Fitzgerald's novel than Baz Luhrmann's glitzy adaptation

Add these authors and their surprising crime stories — plus 1 classic novel about emancipation — to your list today

The 22-year-old from Los Angeles is the youngest inaugural poet in American history

"Girls Gone Wild" goes to hell in Harmony Korine's sublime, tedious and ridiculous new film

Baz Luhrmann's delirious 3-D fairy tale lurches from breathtaking to awful. But wait -- isn't it based on a book?

Something's rotten: America has little income mobility, lots of inequality and our hard work makes the rich richer

Once upon a time, Americans assumed they'd do better than their parents had. Here's why that's all gone away

It really does boil down to us versus them