Oscar Wilde’s Last Stand
Triumphs, trials, tales — from the heights of London society to the depths of Reading Gaol and the luminous prose of De Profundis.
William Hazlitt’s Familiar Style
The finest prose writer of his age — Hazlitt’s radical journalism, literary criticism, and the art of the familiar essay.
Victor Serge: Writing for the Desk Drawer No More
The revolutionary writer who survived Stalinism and exile — his courage, his prose, his legacy.
Must We Burn Sade?
Simone de Beauvoir and the paradox of the Divine Marquis — depravity, conscience, and the ironies of a revolutionary moderate.