In a bold opening, the script swoops straight from the novel’s beginning to its end, so that the narrator, Nick Carraway, flags up Gatsby’s death before we meet him. It’s one of the paradoxes of a ...

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 ...

The Great Gatsby is a story that seldom needs summarizing. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s name and novels are often spoken in the same sentence as the phrase “great American.” With The Great Gatsby being his ...

The darker elements of “The Great Gatsby” prove more elusive, which blunts the impact overall. So does the show’s anodyne Broadway sound, which is poppy and pleasant without being memorable. It ...