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Yearly Archives: 2025
Spring Equinox Roundup
—The Economist has an article about the updating of the “basket of goods” put together by the UK’s Office for National Statistics for the purpose of measuring inflation. Here is an excerpt: To read the contents list of the basket … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Newspapers, Translations					
					
				
								
					Tagged Liberties, The Economist				
				
				
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		St Patrick’s Day Roundup
–Ben Lawrence writes in the Daily Telegraph that “The arts are now terrified of God”. Here are the opening paragraphs: “We don’t do God.” Such was Alastair Campbell’s Rottweiler-like shutdown of journalists asking about the faith of his then-boss Tony … Continue reading
									
						Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited					
					
				
								
					Tagged Country Life, Daily Telegraph, The Express, The Fleming Foundation, The Guardian				
				
				
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		WSJ at Castle Howard
The Wall Street Journal carries a story about how the Howard family have over the years renovated Castle Howard. The article is by J S Marcus and the photographs by Joanna Yee. Here’s an excerpt: …The Lake Sitting Room is … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers					
					
				
								
					Tagged Castle Howard, Wall Street Journal				
				
				
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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: Waugh and Merton
—The Tablet has published a thoughtful article by Canadian author Mary Frances Coady about the relationship between Catholic writers Evelyn Waugh and Thomas Merton. This is entitled “The Odd Couple”. Here are some excerpts: In the early summer of 1948, … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Miscellaneous					
					
				
								
					Tagged Chronicle, George Mikes, Mary Frances Coady, The Spectator, The Tablet, Thomas Merton, W Somerset Maugham				
				
				
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		Washington’s Birthday Roundup
–D J Taylor has written a thoughtful obituary of David Lodge in the latest issue of the journal New Criterion. This is based on his review of Lodge’s life as written in the three-volume autobiography published in Lodge’s final years. … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Television Programs, Vile Bodies, Waugh in Abyssinia					
					
				
								
					Tagged borkena.com, David Lodge, Evening Standard, New Criterion, New York Review of Books				
				
				
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		Valentine’s Day Roundup
–Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the New York Times Book Review has posted this notice in its “Read Like the Wind” column. It is written by Book Review editor Joumana Khatib: The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy, by Evelyn … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One, Vile Bodies					
					
				
								
					Tagged Daily Mail, New York Times, P.G.Wodehouse, Robert Plunket, The Daily Telegraph, The Hudson Review, The Spectator, W H Pritchard				
				
				
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		Evelyn Waugh Studies 55.2 (Autumn 2024)
The Society is pleased to post the latest edition of its journal Evelyn Waugh Studies. This is No. 55.2 (Autumn 2024). The contents are described by the Society’s Secretary Jamie Collinson as follows: With Evelyn Waugh Studies No. 55.2, Jonathan … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Evelyn Waugh Studies					
					
				
				
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		Roundup: End of a Literary Era
–This week’s issue of the New Statesman has as its Weekend Essay an article by John Mullan. This is entitled “The Death of the British Catholic Novel: Catholicism gave English literature something it needs to rediscover” and opens with this: … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Oxford, Sword of Honour, The Loved One					
					
				
								
					Tagged David Lodge, New Statesman, Somerville College Oxford, St John's College, The Spectator, Washington Post				
				
				
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