Oscar Wilde, the subject of an illuminating and tragic new biography by Matthew Sturgis. (Napoleon Sarony / Universal History Archive / Getty Images) Oscar Wilde’s life reads almost like a perfectly ...

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Oscar Wilde, the celebrated Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist, was a master of wit and social commentary. Beyond his well-known plays, Wilde penned a range of prose that continues to ...

The Reading prison that Oscar Wilde was once jailed in may be turned into an art center, thanks in part to a pledged donation by Banksy. Earlier in the year, the elusive street artist stenciled a ...

Beneath Gothic arches and metal walkways, a place of torment has been reclaimed as a place of creative ferment. In 1895, celebrated writer Oscar Wilde — author of The Importance of Being Earnest and ...

Oscar Wilde’s life reads almost like a perfectly formed work of art — one in which each early success bristles with portents of tragedy to come. Long before Wilde’s infamous libel case, his father ...