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Category Archives: Art, Photography & Sculpture
Late March Roundup
–The religious/political website First Things has reposted its 1993 review of Martin Stannard’s two-volume biography of Evelyn Waugh. This is by George Weigel who opens the review with this: Many great novelists have had intricate, even prickly, personalities. But in … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Biographies, Interviews
Tagged First Things, FlashBak.com
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Halloween Roundup
–A new biography of Oscar Wilde has been issued. This is After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal by his grandson Merlin Holland. It is reviewed in Literary Review by Thomas W Hodgkinson who summarizes it as describing the unique … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged Literary Review, Oscar Wilde, Quadrant, The Tablet, The Times
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Roundup: Compilations, Conferences, Croatia and Cover Art
–A profile of author David Pryce-Jones has been posted on the website Onward and Upward. This is written by Jay Nordlinger and is a well-written, concise survey of Pryce-Jones’s life and works. Here’s an excerpt: …Over the years, I have … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Conferences, World War II
Tagged Croatia, David Pryce-Jones, Quentin Blake, William Myers
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Roundup: From Lytham Hall to Combe Florey
–Lytham Hall is cited in a recent article as having inspired or influenced the country house setting of Brideshead Revisited. This is in a feature-length article by David Slattery-Christy in the Sunday Express. The author thinks that both the owner … Continue reading
Posted in Basil Seal Rides Again, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Photographs
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Lytham Hall, Muriel Spark, New Statesman, Pamela Berry, Sunday Express, Sunday Telegraph
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Early June Roundup
–A recent issue of the Daily Telegraph reports the death of Roger Cooper. This includes a discussion of Cooper’s extended imprisonment in Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran: Roger Cooper, who has died aged 90, was a British journalist and businessman who was … Continue reading
Roundup: Books, Paintings and Photographs
–The latest edition of The Oldie contains an article that may be of interest. This is by A N Wilson and is entitled “Great War Stories”. Here is the opening paragraph: WWII inspired Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell and Olivia Manning … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Combe Florey, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged A N Wilson, Duncan McLaren, Edward Burra, Eleanor Doughty, The Economist, The Oldie, The Times
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End of Wintertime (UK) Roundup
–A review by Dylan Neri in The Spectator about a book entitled Carbon: The Book of Life by Paul Hawken opens with this: There is a scene in Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One in which a magazine’s advice columnist ‘the Guru … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Internet, Interviews, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged Anglican Samizdat, Anthony Powell, Apollo, The Critic, The Spectator
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Daylight Savings Time (US) Roundup
–The New York Review of Books has posted a review by Martin Filler entitled “Build Britannia.” This is about a book entitled Interwar British Architecture, 1919-1939 by Gavin Stamp. Here’s an excerpt: …A visceral distrust of European Modernism–emblematic of British … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Newspapers
Tagged Diario de Sevilla, New York Review of Books, The Times
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Roundup: Euthanasia, Stiff-upper-lips, and Feminism
–American journalist Roger Kimball, writing in The Spectator, offers his views on certain aspects of legislation proposed by the new Labour Government: …What if you are old, sick or just plain inconvenient? Starmer’s government has a plan for you, too. … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers, Oxford, Photographs, Podcast, Vile Bodies
Tagged Catholic World Report, MIT Press, The Spectator, Tyler Cowen
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Roundup: From Arcadia to Bohemia
—The Irish Rover, a newspaper sponsored by University of Notre Dame (in Indiana, not Ireland), has posted a brief article on the origins of “Arcadia”. This is by Santiago Legarre who is a visiting professor at the Notre Dame Law … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Labels, Vile Bodies
Tagged Financial Times, Harold Acton, Reaction.life, The Irish Rover, TLS
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