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Monthly Archives: November 2025
Thanksgiving (USA) Roundup
–The New York Review of Books has reviewed a book by Kit Kowol entitled Blue Jerusalem. The review by Ferdinand Mount is entitled “Flipping Britain’s Postwar Script.” Here’s the opening: Controlling the narrative is the name of the game now. … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Daily Mail, New York Review of Books, Russian translations
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David Pryce-Jones (1936-2025) R.I.P.
The death earlier this week of writer and journalist David Pryce-Jones has been announced in the Peerage News. He is best known to our readers as the editor of the 1973 collection Evelyn Waugh and His World. This is noted … Continue reading
Converts, Universities and an Anniversary
–A review by Frances Wilson in The Spectator discusses a recent book by Melanie McDonagh. This is entitled Converts. It may have been mentioned in previous postings. Here is an excerpt from the opening paragraphs: …The 12 conversions explored by … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Articles, Newspapers
Tagged Harpers Magazine, The Spectator
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Armistice Day Roundup
–In a recent issue of Irish Times, Waugh came up in multiple stories. In a review of Elizabeth Day’s novel One of Us, the Times’ reviewer begins by noting that she …deploys one of fiction’s most reliable formulas. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Daily Mail, Irish Times, The Times, Vanity Fair
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Roundup: Vileness Revisited
—William Cash writing in The Times newspaper recalls a Hollywood expat group from the 1990s that was called “the Viles” (at least by him) and explains why Ghislaine Maxwell failed to fit in. Here are some excerpts from his article: … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Salman Rushdie, The American Spectator, The Express, The New York Times, The Times
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