Peter Ackroyd’s Oscar Wilde: A Modernist Reflection

Peter Ackroyd’s Oscar Wilde: A Modernist Reflection

Peter Ackroyd’s “The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde” reimagines Wilde’s tragic wit in exile. Queer icons, caste futures, and radical imagination await.

Oscar Wilde Gets His Library Card Back

British author Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) is perhaps most famous for his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and his play The Importance of Being Earnest. Hugely popular but controversial in Victorian society, Wilde's career and reputation collapsed when he was convicted of gross indecency in 1895 and sentenced to two years in person. He died in poverty three years after his release.The Guardian reports that when Wilde was convicted, the Board of Trus…