Swedish scholar Peter K Andersson delves into the history of the dandy, western society’s snappiest of dressers, from Oscar ...

Learn about Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage - Part of the Broadway Legacies series. In the first book on Cohan in fifty years, Craft situates Cohan as a central figure ...

The Swedish historian catalogues two centuries of outlandish looks and behaviour across working-class subcultures ...

A question to begin: if you think of the word ‘dandy’, is there a famous person who comes to mind? Chances are it’s Oscar Wilde, or, for those fascinated by the early 19th century, Beau Brummell is an ...

PORTRAIT OF MAX (317 pp.)—S. N. Behrman—Random House ($6). “The gods have bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age,” quipped Oscar Wilde when Max Beerbohm was all of 25. It is ...

But even the life of a wealthy, pampered dandy could not go undisturbed. Proust’s father, a successful physician, was a Catholic; his mother, whom he adored and whose image dominated his life ...

Michael Feinstein’s got rhythm, he’s got music, and now he has a dandy new book called “The Gershwins and Me,” about Ira Gershwin and other veteran songwriters he has known.