Something’s always lost when a book gets translated into a film, stage show or graphic novel. But something’s often gained, too, as is manifestly the case with K. Woodman-Maynard’s illustrated ...

Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” opens wide this Friday. Eighty-eight years before -- to the day -- the Los Angeles Times ran this review of the original “The Great Gatsby,” the novel by F. Scott ...

Here's a rundown of the changes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Putting together a film based on a highly acclaimed literary ...

Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” is lurid, shallow, glamorous, trashy, tasteless, seductive, sentimental, aloof, and artificial. It’s an excellent adaptation, in other words, of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ...

The Great Gatsby — 100 years old? How can that be? To borrow the words F. Scott Fitzgerald used to describe New York City in the 1920s, The Great Gatsby possesses "all the iridescence of the beginning ...

West Hartford writer and teacher Rob Kyff makes no secret of his love for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby.” In his new book, “Gatsby’s Secrets: The Hidden Motifs, Moments and Metaphors ...

This year marks 100 years of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” and much has been written about the novel (and the movies it spawned). My colleague Philip Martin wrote an excellent column about ...

WHAT: Guess the secret password and step back in time to a 1920s-style speakeasy. Once inside, an F. Scott Fitzgerald expert will take you on a journey through the author's life and discuss the city’s ...

In 2022, Kyra Davis Lurie heard a story on KCRW’s “Curbed Los Angeles” about the residents of South L.A.’s West Adams Heights, nicknamed Sugar Hill after a community of wealthy Black Harlemites.