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"I must have read it about six times" – author Lucy Foley on 5 books that changed her life

With the paperback publication of her latest novel, The Midnight Feast, I asked Lucy Foley to share the books that meant the most to her

Woman & Home

High buildings, loose morals: Art Deco movement celebrates its centenary

Deriving from a Parisian design fair 100 years ago, "Art Deco" rose up out of the ashes of World War One, bringing confidence, prosperity, very big parties and new, instantly recognisable bold buildings.

Euronews

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

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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.

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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

The Guardian - UK

25 books that should have never been made into movies

It's a wonder Hollywood even bothered adapting these novels, writes Jacob Stolworthy and Adam White

The Independent UK

The best closing lines from books - from poignant final passages to chilling closing sentences

These brilliant closing lines will stay with you long after you put the book down

Woman & Home

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.

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button review – warm and winsome musical tugs at the heartstrings

Relocating the F Scott Fitzgerald story to a Cornish fishing village, this is a vivacious yet touching show

The Guardian - UK

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at Ambassadors Theatre review: Forget Brad Pitt’s film — this is the version to treasure

4/5 This oddball, charming musical is a stirring folkie adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s short story about a man who lives his life in reverse

Evening Standard

William Boyd: ‘Fantasy is a genre that I cannot abide any more’

The novelist on why he can’t read JRR Tolkien anymore, being hooked on Muriel Spark and obsessed with James Joyce

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Propelled by tech money, the menace of race science is back – and it’s just as nonsensical as ever

Once thought extinct after the fall of empire, this debunked practice has re-emerged with support from rogue experts and rich backers, says geneticist Adam Rutherford

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

The Conversation

The Perfect Couple: a cocktail of Succession, The White Lotus and Agatha Christie that ultimately fails to deliver

“Nantucket!” exclaims Ishmael, the narrator of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851). “Look at it – a mere hillock, and elbow of sand; all beach, without a background.”

The Independent UK

‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’: 15 of the most iconic book covers

From ‘The Great Gatsby’ to ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’, Finn Cliff Hodges looks at the best covers out there

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The 32 greatest time travel movies

You don't need a DeLorean to revisit these time travel gems

The Independent UK

The world’s best hotel tennis courts – from playing among Arizona’s red rocks to practising on Italian cliffs

Admire the views while you’re waiting to serve at one of these inspiring places to play tennis

Evening Standard

Hemingway and Monroe's beloved French Riviera hotel to reopen after 50 years as high end homes

Hôtel Provençal opened in 1927 and quickly became a magnet for the rich and famous in the Jazz Age, with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Coco Chanel and Winston Churchill all having visited

The Guardian - US

The Great Gatsby review – a literary classic becomes a Broadway dud

F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel makes an underwhelming transfer to the stage in a bombastic yet misfiring new production

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

How We Break: Navigating the Wear and Tear of Living by Vincent Deary review – the ways in which we’re undone

The psychologist and researcher’s persuasive inquiry into how life’s struggles take their toll is full of hard-won wisdom

Evening Standard

24 of the best-selling novels of all time to read in 2024

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