“There’s lots to grieve right now in the world,” says Kushnir. “But there are so few communal places to be with that grief. And I do think grieving in public normalizes a universal human condition: that we’ve all loved and lost something (time, a dream, a way of life) — or, more commonly, a dear someone.”
De Profundis: Oscar Wilde in Jail uses its source as starting block, not finish line. It plunders Wilde’s prose for its riches and sprints with them, never looking back.