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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Caveat Lector
The Kenyon Review posts another article by writer Aatif Rashid about re-reading Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited: In a piece last month, I wrote about my admiration for Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. [See previous post.] But my experience reading it was actually more … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works
Tagged Aatif Rashid, Kenyon Review
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Another Spanish Review of Wine in Peace and War
A few weeks after the appearance of an article about Waugh’s Wine in Peace and War appeared in a regional Spanish paper, another article has appeared in the Canary Islands. This is by Luis M Alonso and is entitled “El … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Wine in Peace and War
Tagged El Día: La Opinion de Tenerife, Luis M Alonso, Saccone & Speed
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Apthorpe and Widmerpool
In Duncan McLaren’s latest posting, Anthony Powell joins the host of other writer friends of Evelyn Waugh who are either posthumously present or talked about at the recently postponed Castle Howard conference. In this case, Powell and several of his … Continue reading
Posted in Festivals, Men at Arms
Tagged Anthony Powell, Duncan McLaren
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Helena Reviewed in Italian
The Italian religious news website Radio Spada has published a review of Waugh’s novel Helena. An Italian translation of the novel was published as Elena: la madre dell’imperatore in 2002, but this review is not related to that publication, aside from … Continue reading
Posted in Complete Works, Helena, Newspapers
Tagged Luca Fumagalli, Radio Spada
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Another Spectator Competition: Glasto & Glynders
The Spectator recently set another parody competition in which a Waugh entry received honorable mention but once again was not among those published. See previous post. This was described by columnist Lucy Vickery as: … Competition No. 3157 [in which] … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged J C H Mounsey, Parody Competition, The Spectator
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Bastille Day Roundup
—The Australian newspaper’s “Media Watch Dog” column cites its previous mention of Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop where the snobbery of the leftie journalist Pappenhacker was revealed. Waugh’s line was that a wealthy communist university-educated chap named Pappenhacker believed that the best … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Waugh Family, World War II
Tagged First Things, Greg Sheridan, Institite of Public Affairs, Peter Hitchens, Stinchcombe Parish Council, The Australian, The Oldie
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Brideshead and Loving (More)
Duncan McLaren has just posted an interesting comparison between the two 1945 novels: Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited and Henry Green’s Loving. This is quite different from the shorter Daily Telegraph article reported in a previous post. Duncan presents the comparison as … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, First Editions
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Henry Green, Robert Byron
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Waugh and Saint Sophia
A story by Dr Binoy Kampmark, Selwyn College, Cambridge, about the reconversion of the Saint Sophia cathedral in Istanbul from a museum to a mosque opens with this quote from Evelyn Waugh: When the caustic Evelyn Waugh visited the majestic … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Labels
Tagged Dr Binoy Kampmark, Saint Sophia Cathedral, Turkey
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4th of July Roundup
–Duncan McLaren has added a coda to his recent posting about Waugh’s friendship (if that’s the right word) with Cyril Connolly. Duncan’s article is entitled “Cyril in Full Flow” and is based on a visit Cyril made to Berlin in … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Discussions, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged Art UK, Atwoodsmagazine.com, Catholic Herald, Cyril Connolly, Duncan McLaren, Voice of the Southwest
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Saccone & Speed Profiled in Spanish Paper
The Spanish language newspaper Diario de Jerez has published a feature story on the wine merchants Saccone & Speed. The firm was founded and located in nearby Gibraltar and imported wine from, inter alia, the province of Jerez. A portion … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Wine in Peace and War
Tagged Diario de Jerez, Saccone & Speed
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