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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Evelyn Waugh Studies 54.1 (Spring 2023) Posted
The latest issue of the Society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies has been posted. Here is a summary of its contents from the Society’s secretary Jamie Collinson: It’s not often that someone finds a new angle into Waugh that yields genuine insight, … Continue reading
Posted in Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Festivals, Letters
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Roundup: Mostly Books
–In Saturday’s Daily Telegraph politician and journalist Charles Moore sees connections between Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy and a new book by Daniel Finkelstein. Here are the opening paragraphs: I have just caught up with Daniel Finkelstein’s newish book … Continue reading
Posted in Complete Works, Internet, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, World War II
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Julian Jebb, Murial Spark, Neglected Books Page, Paris Review, Viva King
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Midsummer Roundup
—The Article has a detailed review of the recent CWEW edition of A Handful of Dust. This is by literary biographer and critic Jeffrey Meyers who has written several articles about Waugh in the last few years. Meyers opens his … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Collections, Complete Works, Helena, Sword of Honour
Tagged Academic Accelerator, Catholic World Report, Jeffrey Meyers, Lit Hub, The Article
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LRB Posts Waugh Article
The London Review of Books has posted a feature length article by Seamus Perry relating to several of Waugh’s books. This is entitled “Isn’t London Hell?” The article ostensibly reviews 5 of the 6 Waugh novels published late last year … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged London Review of Books, Penguin Books, Seamus Perry
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Roundup: Late Stories, Stately Festivals and a Rare (but Misspelled) Burgundy
–This week’s TLS has a review of Inez Holden’s late stories recently published in a collection issued by the Anthony Powell Society. Here’s an excerpt from the review by Lindsay Duguid: …The stories share an elusive quality, with only the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Collections, Decline and Fall, Festivals, Newspapers
Tagged Clos de Bèze, DBC Pierre, Guardian, Inez Holden, The Oldie, The Spectator, The Times, TLS
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Roundup: From Addis to Epstein
—The Reporter, an Ethiopian English-language journal, has identified the wholesale modernization of the country’s capital Addis Ababa as a matter of cultural concern. Here are the opening paragraphs: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s enigmatic capital, is undergoing a makeover that’s as controversial … Continue reading
Posted in Men at Arms, Newspapers, Remote People, World War II
Tagged Joseph Epstein, P.G.Wodehouse, Quadrant, The American Spectator, The Reporter (Ethiopia), WordOnFire
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Bastille Day Roundup
—Architectural Review has reposted its June 1930 article by Evelyn Waugh about the buildings of Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi. Some of this was included in Waugh’s contemporaneous travel book Labels, but the magazine article appears to be more fully illustrated. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Catholicism, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Labels, Newspapers
Tagged Architectural Review, Crisis magazine, Mojo magazine, Neil Tennant, Spanish Civil War, Time magazine
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Mid-July Roundup
–Novelist, critic and literary biographer DJ Taylor in this month’s Literary Review writes about literary biographies. His own most recent efforts in this field are a revision and expansion of his biography of George Orwell originally published in 2003 and … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Biographies, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, First Editions, The Loved One
Tagged Charlie Watts, Literary Review, Movieweb, OurSundayVisitor, The Spectator
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Campion Lecture in Oxford Announced
Campion Hall, Oxford has announced a public lecture in September that may be of interest to our readers: Professor Gerard Kilroy, Senior Fellow in English at Campion Hall, will be delivering a public lecture to celebrate the 400th anniversary of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Edmund Campion, Lectures, Oxford
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Evelyn Waugh Studies 53.3 (Winter 2022)
A copy of the latest issue of the Society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies is posted for review. This is described by Jamie Collinson, the Society’s secretary as follows: This is an edition I’ve been keenly looking forward to, because the … Continue reading
Posted in Oxford, World War II
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