The novel hasn't died; there just aren't many good novelists around
The New York Observer critic Lee Siegel has been kicking up a storm by saying that the novel is dead, that "fiction has now become a museum-piece genre, most of whose practitioners are more like...
View ArticleExciting news: A video game of James Joyce's Ulysses is not out of the question
I don't know what everyone else's favourite thing of the week is, but mine is this. Yes, that's right. It's an 8-bit NES version of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Playing as Nick Carraway,...
View ArticleDespite The Great Gatsby’s incredible trailer, Baz Luhrmann is attempting the...
The trailer for The Great Gatsby is stunning. The modern soundtrack, the speeding gold car, the unreal gleam – it feels, rightly, like a superhero story. What is more, the casting is perfect. There are...
View ArticleThe most romantic train station in the world turns 100
Grand Central Station in New York turns 100 today. It may not have the history of King's Cross or the architectural wonder of St Pancras, but it makes your heart pound like no other station on earth....
View ArticleCareless People is the biography The Great Gatsby deserves
Sarah Churchwell’s Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby is the second-best book I have read this year. The best is The Great Gatsby, which Careless People inspired me...
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