“The Great Gatsby” is important, of course, but it’s also all kinds of fun.

As Erik Satie’s epic ‘Vexations’ comes to London, we recall other marathon feats, involving Marina Abramović, John Cage and F ...

The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about the Jazz Age and disillusionment with the American Dream, consistently makes the top tier of great American novel lists. Although it just ...

A hundred years ago, a policy move set the stage for sterling’s diminished importance. Soaring deficits could have similar ...

The final novel in Hilary Mantel’s great trilogy has been adapted for TV. Her editor joins us this week to discuss working ...

Among this constantly changing land-use history of Chattanooga, Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp this week announced in his state of the county address that he has appointed hard-working Hamilton ...

The Getty Center's hands-on exhibition, Erik Gernand's small-town-set play, a tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman and more arts headlines and happenings.

I recently reread The Great Gatsby for the first time in decades and find Sarah Churchwell’s parallels with our Tech and Maga elite to be right on the, er, money ( The Weekend Essay, April 5).

Matthew Specktor gives us a tour of his Los Angeles as he publishes “The Golden Hour,” a memoir about his family and a golden era of filmmaking ...

The Great Gatsby musical is a Tony Award winning stage version of F Scott Fitzgerald’s famous novel. The story is all about love, social status, obsession and dreams that never come true. The show ...

For a good, long time in the late 20th century, Graydon Carter was the golden boy in the golden age of magazines. In 1992, he was offered the editorship of "Vanity Fair," which he transformed with ...

Dylan is the Picasso of popular music. His 'Ballad of a Thin Man' speaks more powerfully to what it feels like to be alive in 2025 than anything I can think of.