Just Who Is This Oscar Wilde Person, Anyway? (on David M. Friedman’s Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity; Roy Morris Jr.’s Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America; & Antony Edmonds’ Oscar Wilde’s Scandalous Summer: The 1894 Worthing Holiday and the Aftermath)

Jonathan Russell Clark is the author of the forthcoming Timecodes: The Conversation (Bloomsbury, 2026), Skateboard (Bloomsbury, 2022), and An Oasis of Horror in a Desert of Boredom (Fiction Advocate, 2018). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Literary Hub, The Boston Globe, Tin House, and numerous other publications.