The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald continues to be a cautionary tale for our time. While most attention is given — by readers of the novel or makers of film adaptations — to the parts of the ...

Evelyn Waugh, when he was re-reading Fitzgerald’s other major novel, Tender Is the Night, just a few years before his own death, found it remarkable that “one half-tipsy Yank with a typewriter” could ...

But it’s when discussion of the American Dream gets closer to home that her West Virginia students light up. “One thing ...