We all know the phrase “life imitates art.” It’s a concept explored by Oscar Wilde in his essay titled “The Decay of Lying.” ...

The playwright offered a kind of on-ramp to the literary canon, a way into a life of unabashed, unstoppable thinking.

Goldman is an award-winning television writer (“Seinfeld,” “Ellen”), so it’s no surprise narrator Nils’ dialogue and inner ...

How Wilde’s haters and clever manipulation and promotion created the persona of the much loved Wilde. A book mapping Oscar Wilde’s tour of America claims this audacious unknown invented the idea of ...

Gwen John’s conversion “did not make her a contented woman, though she was sometimes a happy one”, judges Melanie McDonagh in ...

For book lovers, the news that Cambridge University has acquired a previously sealed personal archive of Amy Levy, a ...

Wilde’s death, Merlin Holland comes to terms with his family’s complicated history in After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal.

Charles Darwin’s Address Book is a small brown leather notebook, with “VISITS” and “ADDRESSES” printed on its spine (photo 1) and index-letter tabs in alternating black ...

The gift-giving season is fast approaching, and many of us have dedicated readers on our lists, right? While a good book is ...

The writing in Zootopia 2 is clever and witty, featuring some extremely funny, heart-melting lines. Opens on6, 2025.

Disney’s 'Zootopia 2' has big shoes to fill, with the original film winning the 2017 Oscar for Best Animated Feature.

Wolfe Tone, Daniel O’Connell, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Earnest Shackleton, Edward Carson, Éamon de Valera, Harry Clarke, WB Yeats, Brendan Behan. The men ...