Tobey Maguire plays Nick Carraway as guileless heterosexual—but in the novel, his sexuality's ambiguous, and he's linked to Gatsby & co. by their shared need for deception.
Readers reflect on how the president resembles characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.
Baz Luhrmann's adaptation is just the latest example of his tragic attraction to tragedy.
It's not that Gatsby can't be filmed. It's that it can't be filmed by this Hollywood.
Sports became a U.S. obsession in a time when underground gamblers like Arnold Rothstein—the inspiration for Gatsby's World Series fixer Meyer Wolfsheim—ruled.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel is a surprisingly apt primer on the president of the United States.