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Yearly Archives: 2024
New Year’s Roundup
–Writing in The Spectator, Druin Burch reviews the press coverage of the Lucy Letby case (recently convicted of murdering babies in her care) and recalls the case of an earlier nurse (Benjamin Geen) who was also convicted of murder. The … Continue reading
Posted in Labels, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Angelus, National Review, The Spectator
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Waugh’s Christmas: 100 Years On
A few weeks ago, the following Twitter message was posted: Evelyn Waugh was the least Christmassy of beings. ‘A poor Christmas Day’ he wrote in his diary on 25th December 1919. ‘Like birthdays, Christmas gets duller and duller. Soon it … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Evelyn Waugh
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Winter Solstice Roundup
–Novelist Robert Harris has recommended the best 5 collections of letters for the Wall Street Journal. Those of Evelyn Waugh are included: Born in London in 1903, Evelyn Waugh was a reactionary whose distaste for the modern world included the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop
Tagged Anglotopia, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Tablet, Wall Street Journal
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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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Advent Roundup
–D J Taylor has written a thoughtful essay on the current status of literary biography. This is posted in The Critic Magazine. Here are the introductory paragraphs: Q. Who, just under a century ago, wrote the following, and about whom? … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Podcast, Rossetti: His Life and Works, World War II
Tagged Andrew Pettegree, BBC, D.J.Taylor, Penguin Books, The Critic
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Thanksgiving Roundup
–The New Statesman has an article about the crime novels of James Lee Burke. This is by Michael Henderson who describes the Louisiana setting of the novels featuring the characters of Dave Robicheaux and Cletus Purcel. Here’s an excerpt with … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Fiction, Newspapers, Podcast, Scoop
Tagged James Lee Burke, New Statesman
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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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Waugh in Italian
The announcement of an Italian translation of Waugh’s final travel book has appeared in at least two Italian papers. This is A Tourist in Africa (Un Turista in Africa) published by Aldelphi Edizioni. Here’s a translated excerpt of the review … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Translations
Tagged Adelphi, Il Libraio, Il Manifesto
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Armistice Day Roundup
–The London Review of Books has posted an episode from its ongoing podcast called Close Reads that may be of interest. This is in a series entitled “On Satire” that is conducted by Colin Burrow and Clare Bucknell, both Fellows … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Music, Newspapers, Podcast
Tagged BBC, Gentlemen's Quarterly, London Review of Books, The Imaginative Conservative
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Three Views of Haile Selassie
The British magazine History Today has posted on the internet the full text of its 2015 feature-length article, now entitled “In The Court of Haile Selassie.” This is by literary biographer and critic Jeffrey Meyers and tells the story of … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Remote People, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Haile Selassie, History Today, Jeffrey Meyers
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