Nicola Pierce’s Great Irish Wives reclaims the untold stories of the women who lived in the shadows of Ireland’s most famous ...

In a modern reimagining of Wilde’s classic tale, schoolchildren find refuge in a beautiful garden, but when a snarling, ginger-haired giant arrives, he angrily chases the children away and builds a ...

Literature doesn’t emerge from a vacuum, and some of the most lauded literary works in history have rich and complex origin stories. The weekend that inspired Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein (and ...

Striking, sexy and sepia-toned, the photographs of sun-kissed male physiques and their Romanesque laurel-crowned cosplay featured in the new book Oscar Wilde’s Italian Dream 1875–1900 (Damiani) might ...

Constance Wilde knows how she appears to the public after her husband Oscar’s 1895 conviction for so-called acts of gross indecency. “The poor little waif, the blinkered wifey,” Constance says ...

An album containing a two-page confession of Oscar Wilde’s passions, tastes, habits, and convictions on the cusp of his stardom is being offered at a Sotheby’s online auction running through Aug. 4.

It is no coincidence that Larry Millett lives in what he believes is the oldest rowhouse in Minnesota. The St. Paul novelist and journalist, who dates his house to 1871 and whose new book is ...

In 1892, playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde was a few years away from the trial and imprisonment that would wreck his life and that of his family. Louis Bayard begins his delicately masterful ...

In 1926, the historian Beth Zion (Roochel) Lask, author of The Jews in England: A History For Young People read an essay ...

Creativity, Design and the Building of a New Class Consciousness by CG Beck (Monthly Review Press) Architects have ...

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A new production in London, starring Ncuti Gatwa, releases Oscar Wilde’s 1895 comedy from period convention and brings it stunningly into the 21st century. By Matt Wolf The Australian Ballet’s ...