Weekend reads: Week of April 11, 2025

Here's a collection of literary posts that we didn't share on our reader blog last week but thought were worth highlighting.

• 100 years later, The Great Gatsby still speaks to the troubled dream of America (NPR)

• From the jazz age to the Trump age: The Great Gatsby at 100 (The Guardian) 

• As The Great Gatsby turns 100, what's it like teaching it today? (NPR) 

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro is 20 years old (Book Riot) 

• The literary impact of Beverly Cleary (Book Riot).