June 07, 2012
In the Rhino Colony
January 16, 2012
What is the Meaning of it, Watson?
IN AUGUST 1889, Joseph Stoddard, the editor of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, invited Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle to lunch in London. The two authors left with two contracts: Wilde for The Picture of Dorian Gray and Doyle for The Sign of the Four, the second Sherlock Holmes novel. The stalwart, bluff Doyle, the Scottish physician who invented Sherlock Holmes, and the high-mannered Wilde have more in common than you might have thought. READ MORE >>
November 10, 2011
The Unexamined Socrates
July 25, 2011
Seduction Unending
March 29, 2011
