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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Roundup: Waugh Widely Cited in London Papers
—-A novel by Duff Cooper (husband of Waugh’s friend Diana Mitford) was briefly noted in a recent issue of Evening Standard. This novel has been reissued in the Penguin Classics series. The notice is by Melanie McDonagh. Here’s an excerpt: … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Exhibits, Scoop
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Duff Cooper, Evening Standard, Guardian, Nussaibah Younis, The Times
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Two Interesting Waugh Articles
On the same day late last week, two interesting and provocative articles were posted, both of which revolve around Waugh and his fictional characters. The first is entitled “Waugh Warned Us”. It was written by Paul Bauman and appeared in … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Commonweal Magazine, Dwight Longenecker, Paul Bauman, The Imaginative Conservative
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End of January Roundup
–A Scottish blogger, posting on Hole Ousia, has expressed his admiration for Waugh’s Diaries. Here’s his discussion of selections from the diaries which he has recently read: I recently read ‘The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh‘ as edited by Michael Davie. … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Oxford
Tagged Cherwell, Sunday Telegraph, The Times
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New Academic Study of Waugh Issued
Bloomsbury Publishing has announced the publication of a new academic study of Waugh. This is entitled Evelyn Waugh’s Exterior Modernism: Cinema, Satire, Comedy and is written by Waugh Society member and co-editor of Evelyn Waugh Studies, Yuexi Liu. Here are the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh Society, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Bloomsbury Books, Yuexi Liu
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Roundup: MLK Day (US) Edition
–The Financial Times has an article by Janan Ganesh entitled “The right will want a United States of Europe”. It opens with this: Auberon Waugh, son of the novelist Evelyn, died a quarter of a century ago this month. Never … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Cherwell, Financial Times, The Conversation, The Imaginative Conservative, The Irish Aesthete, The Spectator
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Roundup: Writers on Waugh
–Two writers have posted a discussion of Waugh’s novel The Loved One. This is on YouTube and involves PhDs Kevin McAleer and Bruce Newsome, each of whom has written a book satirizing California. Here is a description of their talk: … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Helena, Newspapers, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Selina Hastings, The Critic, The Tatler, YouTube
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First-of-the-Year Roundup
—Prospect Magazine has posted an interview of novelist William Boyd by Cosmo Adair. It begins with a discussion of Boyd’s latest novels (several dealing with spies) and proceeds back from that. Here’s an excerpt: …Of all the spy writers, Graham … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Heath Mount, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Los Angeles County Library, Prospect Magazine, The Spectator
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Happy New Year and Welcome to Public Domain
Several papers have been carrying the story on books to be released today (1 January 2026) from copyright publishing restrictions and into the public domain. Among these, Waugh’s Vile Bodies has been prominently mentioned. It was published as his second … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Collections, Decline and Fall, Fiction, Labels, Vile Bodies
Tagged Copyright, New Editions
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Christmas Greetings from EWS
–Christmas was not a particularly happy time for the adult Evelyn Waugh, if only because his children were home from school. Here’s an example posted on a Substack.com website by Paul Fishman. This is taken from Waugh’s diaries (p. 668): … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Diaries, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Penguin Books
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John Carey: b. 5 April 1935, d. 11 December 2025: R.I.P.
John Carey, former Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford and one of his generation’s most noted literary critics, died last week at the age of 92. His obituary appeared, inter alia, in the Guardian, The Times and the Daily … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Obituaries, Oxford
Tagged Daily Telegraph, John Carey
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