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 ...

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 ...

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.

“Cromo,” “Club de Cuervos” and “El Dandy,” three of Latin America’s highest-profile TV fictions of the season, plus Canadian skein “The Book of Negroes” will screen at the first ...