As The Great Gatsby turns 100, take a look at the world of crime, music and culture that inspired some of the art of the Lost ...

There’s something off about The Gatsby Gambit’s epigrams. One draws from the children‘s classic Harriet the Spy (“to yourself you must always tell the truth”); the other from Fitzgerald ...

In the spring of 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald was worried about “The Great Gatsby.” It had been fifteen years since the novel was published, and the author had little to show for it.

Fitzgerald lived in a much more modest house just a few miles away when he was writing "The Great Gatsby." The Schietingers, though, believe the author must have visited here. They imagine him ...

In performance this Gatsby turns out to be a sleek ... where swirling trenchcoats accompany Shady, sung by the gangster-bootlegger Wolfsheim, is baffling though. Wolfsheim is played with ...

The gangster Meyer Wolfsheim, who is a fleeting character in Fitzgerald’s book, is transformed into the musical’s villain, threatening Gatsby and revealing his secrets to Tom. Most fatally ...

Read our review of The Great Gatsby, starring Jamie Muscato and Frances Mayli McCann ... Rachel Tucker and John Owen-Jones are luxury casting as, respectively, brassy Myrtle and a shady gangster, ...

Not only did he know Fitzgerald, he said, but he inspired his masterpiece. “I’m the real Jay Gatsby,” he declared. “The Great Gatsby” is celebrating its 100th anniversary this month.

A copy of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is displayed June 6, 2013 at Sotheby's in New York. (Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images) The first review of “The Great Gatsby,” published a ...

Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” It was destined to be the ... Trump commutes federal life sentence of founding Gangster Disciples kingpin Larry Hoover Larry Hoover ‘deserves to ...

"Highballs?" asks the head waiter at a restaurant Gatsby visits with gangster Meyer Wolfsheim. (A scotch and soda is an archetypal version of the cocktail.) "'Yes, highballs,' agreed Gatsby." ...

Maintaining relevance after 100 years in the public consciousness is no small feat, but that’s exactly what the American novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald has managed to do.