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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 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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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