“The Great Gatsby” is one of the great American novels. Why? NPR book critic Maureen Corrigan explores this in her new book, “And We Read On.”

Its boat too often rides along the current, borne safely into mediocrity.

Vernon Loeb, The Washington Post’s local editor and the co-author of Paula Broadwell’s biography of her lover, former CIA Director David Petraeus, is finally breaking his silence.