Ellen Terry wanted to look like a snake. She wanted her body to glimmer on stage, hard and soft at once, as though…

Did you ever read Dorian Gray and think, damn, as someone who will eventually become invisible to a society that…

Summer's here, which means it's time to pick up a book — or a Kindle, or an iPad. With all the traveling and hanging…

Five letters in which Oscar Wilde "propositions" magazine editor Alsager Vian will be auctioned later this month in…

Today, Obit's Judy answers the plea of a teen who just wants to shout for joy now that a mean school principal is…

A woman wrote into Obit's "Ask Judy" with a real problem: an airline ruined her first-class flight with a dead…

Here's a first look at the Dorian Gray poster. Didn't you picture him blond, though? No? Okay, then. [ONTD]

This week, a concerned citizen wrote in to Obit's resident sage, Judy, with a question of doctrinal import. Judy…

The writer may have asked The Spectator's "Mary." We asked a bunch of dead people!

Let's ask Dorothy Parker!