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Oscar Wilde, no. 26 (1882). One of a series of photo portraits taken by Napoleon Sarony when Wilde was in New York.<\/em><\/p>\n

Every day is an anniversary for something. Among other things, October 16th 2014 is the 160th anniversary of the day that Oscar Wilde was brought to Earth in a spaceship\u2014see Velvet Goldmine<\/em><\/a> for details\u2014so in honour of that moment here’s a few more Wildean links.<\/p>\n

\u2022 One item of news I missed last month was Al Pacino’s announcement<\/a> that he’ll be bringing his production of Wilde’s Salom\u00e9<\/em> to the London stage in 2016. Good to hear that his enthusiasm was sparked by the excellent Steven Berkoff production<\/a>, and this detail is especially noteworthy: “There will be make-up, sets, costumes… and decadence. It will be a whole different thing to what we did in America.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 Turkish censors still have problems with Anglophone novels that publishers attempt to present in Turkish translations\u2014the work of William Burroughs caused a fuss a couple of years ago\u2014but last month an uncensored edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em><\/a> was published there for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Oscar Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland: “We’ve got as close as we can to hearing him speak”<\/a> Holland has co-written The Trials of Oscar Wilde<\/em>, a dramatisation of Wilde’s court appearances which opens at Trafalgar Studios, London, this week.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The extraordinary story of Oscar Wilde\u2019s holiday in Worthing in 1894<\/a>. James Connaughton interviews Antony Edmonds about his new book, Oscar Wilde\u2019s Scandalous Summer: The 1894 Worthing Holiday and the Aftermath<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The beau of Reading jail: was prisoner 1122 Oscar Wilde\u2019s lover?<\/a> (The answer to any newspaper headline ending with a question mark is invariably “No”.)<\/p>\n

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