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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 Conversation

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

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 Guardian - UK

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

Ahead of 100th anniversary ‘The Great Gatsby’ in 2025, Ellie Seymour travels east from Manhattan to the Hamptons, discovering the places that inspired the great American novel

The Independent UK

Top 10 cads in fiction

Dangerously handsome young men carelessly ruining women’s lives are a rarer breed than they were. But their hatefulness still makes compelling reading

The Guardian - UK

Strabane alert: Michelle O’Neill condemns ‘reprehensible’ attack on PSNI officers

There has been widespread condemnation of those responsible for the alleged attack

Belfast Live

The tragic misbehaviour of big business

Are successful businesspeople more like heroes or villains? In fictional accounts, one can find plenty of examples of each, from Charles Dickens's miserly Ebenezer Scrooge to Ayn Rand's rugged individualist entrepreneur John Galt. In F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan represents privileged old money, with its ruthlessness and…

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Ulster Fleadh organisers condemn sectarian chanting shared in viral video

A statement from the organisers said it was ‘unaffiliated’ with the publicly-funded music festival

Belfast Live

Through its rambling millionaires, The Great Gatsby satirises racist ideology

Letter: In his 1925 novel, F Scott Fitzgerald is not ‘referencing’ white supremacist ideas but attacking them head-on, writes Richard Ellis

The Guardian - UK

West Tyrone Assembly election results 2022: Sinn Féin retain strong position with three MLAs elected

Nicola Brogan was the first to pass the quota of 7,666 in the first round, with a first preference vote of 8,626.

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