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

After contracting an ear infection and developing acute meningitis, Oscar Wilde died penniless in Paris. Despite only writing ...

You read these never-ending debates over supposedly reforming the Upper House and it makes you wonder if anything will ever really change. It feels like an elaborate metaphor for the state of this ...

Death does not kill alone/Nor does he fight singly/He goes to war with plenty of warriors…/He sends Disease first/He sends ...

The lines above are from Professor Bade Ajuwon’s, ‘Ogun’s Iremoje: A Philosophy of Living and Dying’, taken from Sandra Barnes’ ‘Africa’s Ogun: Old World and New’. It is a chant (Ìrèmòje) by one ...

Sudan is by far the world’s fastest-growing displacement crisis, with an average of 20,000 people migrating daily and 30.4m — ...

I turn 86 today, so I’m far over my biblical allotment of three-score-plus-ten, and thus running out of time, whatever the ...

Three hundred years since they first appeared, the capital's traditional members-only clubs have endured and evolved. Now a ...

While her wild younger brother is a feted household name, Gwen John is hardly known. But a fascinating new book, which ...

For the bathroom photos depict Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, a man who bankrupted his family and died young ...

An exhibition examines how art was affected by the idea of sexual identity. Its curators say the show has run into resistance at home and abroad.

Oscar Wilde, author “This wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. Either it goes or I do.” Oscar Wilde, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray, was famously flamboyant.