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Category Archives: Academia
Virtual Book Launch for Helena
The Oxford University Press and Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project have announced a virtual book launch for the publication of Helena. The book (volume 11 of the Complete Works) will be published next month in the UK, with North … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh Society, Events, Helena
Tagged Book Launch, Oxford University Press
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“92 Days” Complete Works Edition Announced
The Oxford University Press has announced the UK publication date for its definitive edition of Waugh’s 1934 travel book Ninety-Two Days. This will appear in the UK on 25 February 2021, the same UK publication date as the previously-announced A … Continue reading
Tourist in Africa OUP Volume Announced
The Oxford University Press has announced the publication of another new volume in its Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project. This is A Tourist in Africa (1960) and will be volume 25 in the series. Here’s the description from the OUP’s … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Academia, Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh Society
Tagged Oxford University Press, Patrick R Query
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Labor Day Roundup
–Sebastian Payne writing in the Financial Times describes a non-boring dinner party of his own contrivance. The venue will be Riley’s Fish Shack at Tynemouth on the northeast coast of England and the chef will be Adam Riley, apparently owner … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Lectures, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Durham University, Financial Times, Irish Times, Oxford University Press, The Tablet
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Waugh’s V-J Day
V-J Day celebrates its 75th anniversary this week. The Japanese surrendered on 15 August 1945 in Japan but the news was received when it was 14 August in the UK and USA. In Britain this was a much lesser event … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Diaries
Tagged DJ Taylor, Kings College London, New Statesman, Prof Ashley Jackson, Randolph Churchill, V-J Day
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Challenging Waugh Question
On this week’s BBC Two episode of University Challenge, a Waugh reference formed one half of a 10 point question. Jeremy Paxman presented the question thus: What five letter word links an ironic synonym for “Force” in Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Scoop, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Jeremy Paxman, University Challenge
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End-of-July Roundup
—The Economist magazine’s 1843 section has an article by Catherine Nixey entitled: “The death of nostalgia”. It is subtitled: “People used to pine for a simpler life. Now they’ve got it – and it’s not all it’s cracked up to … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Economist, First Things, Harry Mottram, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Tatler, The Spectator
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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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Roundup: Riots and Pestilence
–Conservative essayist and editor Roger Kimball writing in the journal The Epoch Times (describing itself as “non-partisan” but otherwise characterized elsewhere) addresses the controversial subject of political protests and street riots in the USA. The article is entitled “Those Burning … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law
Tagged Diario de Noticias, Georgetown University Library, Sunday Telegraph, The Epoch News, The Spectator
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Monsignor Rittig Revisited
The Zagreb newspaper Večernji list has published an interview of the writer and religion scholar Margareta Matijevic who has recently written a book about the Yugoslav priest and politician Svetozar Rittig. From what I can gather from the computerized translation … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Catholicism, Diaries, Interviews, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Croatia, Svetozar Rittig, Večernji List, Yugoslavia
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