Journalist Terence Smith reflects on decades of reporting on American presidents, wars On our bookshelf tonight, NewsHour's old friend and former longtime media correspondent Terence Smith's ...

Each year, 100 years after its publication this month in April 1925, “The Great Gatsby” sells around half a million copies, but at the time of Fitzgerald’s death in 1940, it had sold fewer ...

Another assignment would be to aim as high as possible, to try to forge a work of great literature, an actual Great American Novel out of fantasy’s tropes and impulses and materials.

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America needs a 'Great American Fantasy' The country's popular culture and mythology suffers from a lack of originality Hogwarts Castle at Universal Studios Hollywood in Universal City, California.