Oscar Wilde

“A Nation of Lunatics.” What Oscar Wilde Thought About America

Rob Marland on the Irish Writer’s Grand Tour of the Gilded Age United States

 
By Rob Marland  March 11, 2024
The Hub

Read an 1890 review of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

By Dan Sheehan  July 24, 2023
Queer History

How Oscar Wilde Created a Queer, Mysterious Symbol in Green Carnations

By Tara Isabella Burton  June 27, 2023
The History of Literature

Who Was the Man Behind Oscar Wilde’s Downfall?

By History of Literature  April 3, 2023
Irish Literature

The Exile of Oscar Wilde, Dublin’s Charming Ghost

By Alexander Poots  March 17, 2023
Art

Mirror and Window Both: The Brief Superabundance of Aubrey Beardsley

By A. Natasha Joukovsky  February 16, 2023
Queer History

Why the “Bad Gays” of History Deserve More Attention

By Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller  May 31, 2022
Tycoons

The Tumultuous Marriage of the American “Empress of Journalism” and Oscar Wilde’s Feckless Brother

By Betsy Prioleau  March 29, 2022
Queer History

Grace Lavery’s Reading List of Queer Treasures

By Grace Lavery  February 14, 2022
The Hub

8 books perfectly summed up with out-of-context Derry Girls.

By Snigdha Koirala  January 19, 2022
Poetry

“Oscar Wilde at the Pavilion Hotel”

By Paul Muldoon  November 23, 2021
Open Source

Into the Feel Tank: Remembering Lauren Berlant and Her Concept of “Cruel Optimism”

By Open Source  August 20, 2021
The Hub

Manic Pixie Dream Portrait: On 500 Days of Summer and Dorian Gray.

By Katie Yee  July 20, 2021
Aesthetics

How Oscar Wilde Won Over the American Press

By Nicholas Frankel  July 19, 2021
The History of Literature

A. Natasha Joukovsky on Oscar Wilde, Ovid, and the Myth of Narcissus

By History of Literature  July 19, 2021
Queer Literature

On E.M. Forster’s Maurice and the Urgency of Expanding Queer Genealogies

By William di Canzio  July 6, 2021
The Hub

You should be listening to John Murry, the moody musician who just happens to be Faulkner’s cousin.

By Emily Temple  June 22, 2021
Behind the Mic

The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde, Read by Simon Jones

By Behind the Mic   February 2, 2021
Photography

Visiting Babylon Boulevard, New York’s 19th-Century Bohemian Underworld

By Stephen Berkman  December 2, 2020
Literary Icons

Oscar Levant and Oscar Wilde: Masters of Staving Off Melancholy with Wit

By David Lazar  November 9, 2020
The Hub

Here’s what it was like to cross the Atlantic with Oscar Wilde.

By Corinne Segal  August 21, 2020
Art and Politics

The Men Who Brought Political Radicalism to Oscar Wilde

By Kristian Williams  July 9, 2020
Literary History

The Case of Oscar Wilde’s Mistaken Identity in Naples

By Renato Miracco  May 21, 2020
Anniversaries

One of Oscar Wilde’s last stops in England before exile was a bookstore.

By Aaron Robertson  May 19, 2020
Solitude

Cultivating Solitude,
The Henry James’ Way

By Fenton Johnson  March 10, 2020
Style

Sixteen in Queens and in Love With Lord Alfred Douglas

By Dylan Byron  March 3, 2020
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