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What Your Favorite Classic Novel Says About Your Decorating Style

Got a favorite classic novel? Chances are it says more about your design style than your literary tastes

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14 Must-Read Books That Reimagine Characters and Stories From Classic Literature

These must-reads give an update to your favorite works by Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, and more.

Marie Claire

Robert Redford: ten great films from a brilliant career

Over the course of an illustrious film career which began in 1960, Robert Redford starred in more than 50 films and directed nine. He was nominated for an Oscar four times, won best director for his debut Ordinary People in 1980, and received an honorary Oscar for his contribution to…

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Remembering Robert Redford: A man who taught so many how to love

Pour one out for Katie and Hubbell.

The Mary Sue

Robert Redford obituary

One of Hollywood’s greats who starred in All the President’s Men, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and The Sting

The Guardian - UK

The Great Gatsby review – a jazz age party that charlestons through tragedy

Oraine Johnson’s emotionally available take on Jay Gatsby adds more energy to a dance-filled show but Fitzgerald’s lesson risks getting lost amid the frocks and fun

The Guardian - UK

The Great Gatsby party is still raging on the West End

Corbin Bleu and Jamie Muscato on the ever-evolving, always-mysterious, entirely spectacular Gatsby production which marks 100 years of the novel

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‘Look how well-read I am!’ How ‘books by the metre’ add the final touch to your home – or your image

It’s never been easier to build an impressive-looking library, especially if you’re mostly interested in the colour and size of your books. Is this necessarily a bad thing?

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10 Hottest Independent Comic Books Out Right Now

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The Great Gatsby at the Coliseum: 'a little empty beneath the razzmattazz'

3/5 The award-winning Broadway musical version of Fitzgerald’s novel hits London as a lavish spectacle but lacking heart

Evening Standard

The Great Gatsby: A New Musical review – what a swell party this ain’t

F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic jazz age novel ought to be a perfect basis for a musical, but no amount of Charlestons from a fine cast can put the fizz into this

The Guardian - UK

After 100 years, The Great Gatsby still reminds us of the ability of literature to transform everyday life

Last November, I flew to New York to see a play: Gatz, an eight-hour reading of the entire text of The Great Gatsby by the experimental theatre ensemble the Elevator Repair Service.

The Conversation

Themed cocktails and escape rooms… 100 years on, we’ve lost sight of the real Great Gatsby

THE READING LIST: Something of F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 book has been lost in the fog of its own mystique, commercialised by endless business endeavours that seem to contradict its core message. Nick Hilton revisits the classic on its milestone anniversary and hears warning bells for today’s billionaire oligarchs

The Independent UK

The Great Gatsby at 100: this great American novel is a universal meditation on time and change

One hundred years after its publication, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel, The Great Gatsby – the story of nouveau riche Jay Gatsby’s obsessive quest to win back his lost love, Daisy Buchanan – is best remembered for its depiction of America’s Jazz Age excess, especially through Gatsby’s wildly extravagant parties.

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The Great Gatsby at 100: the Jazz Age novel that helps explain Trump’s America

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a top contender for the title of Great American Novel, turns 100 on April 10.

The Guardian - UK

Gatsby by Jane Crowther; The Gatsby Gambit by Claire Anderson-Wheeler – Jay’s eternal hold

Two enjoyable debut novels put fresh meat on Fitzgerald’s deathless classic – one a modern-day retelling in which Gatsby becomes a female influencer, another a pacy murder mystery in the vein of Agatha Christie

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Horror, satire, tawdry wealth and postcolonial critique: 5 classics to catch up on this summer

I’ve dedicated my professional life to reading and teaching the English classics. The crucial thing about classics is that they start as cutting-edge literary experiments.

The Independent UK

Gatsby’s Long Island: From Manhattan to the Hamptons – discovering the places that inspired F Scott Fitzgerald

As ‘The Great Gatsby’ turns 100, Ellie Seymour travelled east from Manhattan to the Hamptons – discovering the places that inspired the great American novel

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Rediscovered: the long-lost script that helped The Great Gatsby become a classic

F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel was a flop until a 1926 staging became a Broadway smash

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Exploring The Top 10 American Literary Classics

Discover iconic novels like The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Moby-Dick exploring societal issues and moral dilemmas.

The Guardian - US

HBO to develop George Santos’s ‘Gatsby-esque journey’ into movie – report

News that the book The Fabulist will be adapted into film comes after congressman was expelled last week

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AI Isn’t Yet a Huge Help to Writing Students, Says Director of Harvard’s Writing Center

Jane Rosenzweig sees potential for AI in the future but is critical of many of its current classroom applications.

The Independent UK

23 secretly fantastic performances buried in awful movies

Louis Chilton picks a handful of great roles that deserved better than the films they appeared in

Evening Standard

Best rewearable ‘Halloween’ outfits for everyday use

A costume to last a lifetime

The Independent UK

23 secretly brilliant performances in bad movies

Louis Chilton picks a handful of great roles that deserved better than the films they appeared in

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