Topic: F. Scott Fitzgerald

President Trump hosted an opulent Halloween party - honoring The Great Gatsby - on the night before millions of Americans will lose their sole resource for food. (Samuel Corum / Getty Images)

Real-life Gatsby: champagne vs SNAP cuts

CK Smith
Barack Obama; Donald Trump; Ellis Island, 1924 (AP/Getty/Salon)

Trump, Obama and the lure of the past

Andrew O'Hehir
Louis C.K., Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, Mario Batali (Getty/AP)

#MeToo men plot their big comebacks

Erin Keane
Matt Bomer as Monroe Stahr in "The Last Tycoon" (Amazon)

A "Tycoon" both rich and poor

Melanie McFarland
(AP/Reuters/Stephane Mahe/Salon)

The past: Still not dead!

Andrew O'Hehir
(Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com/Reuters/Gary Cameron/Jonathan Ernst)

"It’s your own damn fault!"

Elias Isquith
F. Scott Fitzgerald (AP)

My mother's Fitzgerald affair

Wendy W. Fairey

Hipsters: They’re just like us

Thomas Frank
F. Scott Fitzgerald (Wikimedia Commons)

Jillian Goodman - LA Review of Books

Is Gatsby a "Spring Breaker"?

Joe Pinsker - Jacobin
Scene still from "The Great Gatsby"

Thomas Mucha - GlobalPost
F. Scott Fitzgerald (Wikimedia Commons)

Michael Winship - BillMoyers.com
(Warner Brothers/AP/Carolyn Kaster/Salon)

Is Obama playing Gatsby?

Andrew O'Hehir

Tweeting "The Great Gatsby"

Jennifer Wright

If Walt Disney made "Gatsby"

Andrew O'Hehir
Mitt Romney (AP)

Jared Bernstein - On The Economy
Scene still from "Spring Breakers"

Merve Emre - LA Review of Books

Was Nick Carraway gay?

Greg Olear - The Weeklings

Julia Ingalls