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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Latest Issue of EWS Is Posted
Jamie Collinson has posted the latest issue of the Evelyn Waugh Studies (No. 56.2). Here’s his description: Edition 56.2 of Evelyn Waugh Studies is now available for your reading pleasure. Within, Jeffrey Manley reviews Lady Pamela Berry: Passion, Politics and Power, by Harriet … Continue reading
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Spectator Compares Waugh Novel to Current BBC Series
The Spectator has an article by Alexander Larman in which he compares the current BBC drama series Industry to Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited. Given the contents of Industry, which follows the careers of several young characters working at a London … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged 'Industry', Alexander Larman, BBC, The Spectator
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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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Allan Massie (16 October 1938 – 3 February 2026) R.I.P.
Novelist and journalist Allan Massie has died earlier this week. Among his obituaries, several mention a connection of his early fictional works with those of Evelyn Waugh. His son Alexander Massie writes: …His novels … ranged widely. He began with … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Obituaries
Tagged Allan Massie, Daily Telegraph, 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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