THE WORLD AND THE DOOR
A favourite dodge to get your story read by the public
is to assert that it is true, and then add that Truth
is stranger than Fiction. I do not know if the
yarn I am anxio...
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Biography EssayWhen William Sydney Porter had his first book, Cabbages and Kings (1904), published he had only six more years to live. But, with his identity hidden beneath the legendary pen name O. ...
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The American short-story writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), who wrote under the pseudonym O. Henry, pioneered in picturing the lives of lower-class and middle-class New Yorkers.William Sydney P...
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O. Henry was the pseudonym of William Sydney Porter, an early-twentieth-century author known for creating short, often humorous stories with ironic twists or surprise endings, a type still referred to...
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When William Sydney Porter had his first book, Cabbages and Kings (1904), published he had only six more years to live. But, with his identity hidden beneath the legendary pen name O. Henry, the fame ...
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Perhaps the reputation of no other American writer has undergone a more rapid and drastic reversal than that of William Sydney Porter. Writing under the pseudonym O. Henry during the first decade of t...
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William Sydney Porter is best remembered as the prolific writer O. Henry, whose books and short stories earned him worldwide popularity. The self-styled "Caliph of Bagdad-on-the-Subway," the man beset...
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For devotees of the shaped-canvas aesthetic, the exhibition of paintings by Elizabeth Murray at the Museum of Modern Art is likely to be embraced as a pictorial paradise. The shaped canvas has neve...
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For devotees of the shaped-canvas aesthetic, the exhibition of paintings by Elizabeth Murray at the Museum of Modern Art is likely to be embraced as a pictorial paradise. The shaped canvas has neve...
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The group of young Germans who, in 1905, proudly called themselves Die Brücke ("The Bridge") derived their name from Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, one of the radical philosophical tracts...
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Fame hasn’t always been kind to the reputation of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), whose drawings are now featured in an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s owing to his fam...
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Fame hasn’t always been kind to the reputation of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), whose drawings are now featured in an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s owing to his fa...
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“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!â€
Fashion Week has left me feeling a lot like Lady Macbeth. All I can think about are stains and spots. This obsessive state of mind ...
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I'm glad I caught up with Austin Pendleton's unusual backstage story, Orson's Shadow, which has settled in for a long run, I hope, at the Barrow Street Theatre downtown. For one surprising thing, i...
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Whirligigs
O. Henry
O. Henry
William Sydney Porter
Caution to Viewers: Murray\'d5s Paintings May Induce Vertigo
