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Monthly Archives: January 2018
Waugh Letter to French Translator
London booksellers Peter Harrington have on offer a 1946 letter from Evelyn Waugh to a translator who was interested in producing a French version of Vile Bodies. This is Jean Dauven who apparently had asked Waugh a number of questions … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Items for Sale, Letters, Vile Bodies
Tagged Jean Dauven, Peter Harrington Booksellers, translations
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Two Hits and Two Misses
The staff at The American Conservative magazine are asked to contribute to a regular column called “TAC Bookshelf” describing and rating their current reading. Andrew J Bacevich devoted his latest contribution to Evelyn Waugh. He considered Sword of Honour a … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television
Tagged Andrew J Bacevich, Dennis Cooper, The American Conservative, unfinished novels
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Midwinter Roundup: Worldwide Waugh
Evelyn Waugh is mentioned in two recent German newspaper articles: In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Andrea Diener writes a column noting the domination by women of the Guardian’s fiction bestseller list–only one man made the list: Haruki Murakami at #6. … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Vile Bodies
Tagged "En Compostela", Allgemeine Zeitung (Mainz), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Laura Shapiro, Richard Burton, The Times, Vdare
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Evelyn Waugh, Smoking and Contemplation
An essay on The American Conservative’s website, entitled “Why George Will is Wrong about Smokers”, opens with this: Smokers, George Will says, lack “common sense.” In a late December opinion column in the Washington Post, Will declared, “Filling one’s lungs … Continue reading
Posted in Chattels & Movables, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Casey Chalk, Havana cigars, smoking, The American Conservative, The Times
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Waugh Features in Podcast on “Narrative and Religion”
A recent podcast in the series Conversations with Tyler involves an interview with New York Times columnist Russ Douthat. The series is sponsored by George Mason University and the interviewer is Tyler Cowen but the date and the venue are … Continue reading
Three Views of Brideshead
Blogger-philosophers seem to be spending the winter months reading and thinking about the religious implications of Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited. On the conservative weblog counter-currents.com, there is a two-part review of a book first published in 1947 by theologian Alan … Continue reading
Dursley in the News
The Mirror has identified Dursley (where Evelyn Waugh lived from 1937-1956) as a “commuter hotspot”. This is determined by its proximity to Bristol and is measured by the annual growth in housing prices. The Mirror puts Dursley at #2 in … Continue reading
Posted in Combe Florey, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Dursley, Gloucestershirelive.com, Piers Court, Stinchcombe, The Mirror
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Waugh, The Revisionist
The latest edition of Commonweal magazine has an essay by veteran Waugh scholar Robert Murray Davis. This is entitled “‘Brideshead’ Revisited and Revised: The Mixed Reception of Waugh’s Most Famous Novel.” In this, he traces the critical reception of Brideshead … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Commonweal, Robert Murray Davis
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Celebrities and Waugh: Roundup
The press is replete with celebrities citing Evelyn Waugh this week. In the Daily Express, actor Freddie Fox cited Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited as one of his six favorite books: “Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint” is … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Daily Express, Freddie Fox, Irish Times, Kristin Scott Thomas, Richard Prendlebury, Taki's Magazine, The Tatler
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Orwell’s Religion in this Week’s Tablet
D J Taylor writing in the latest edition of The Tablet addresses the issue of George Orwell’s attitude toward religion in general and the Roman Catholic church in particular. This is in an essay entitled “The Other Saint George: George … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged D.J.Taylor, George Orwell, Michael G Brennan, The Tablet
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