Category Archives: Catholicism

Washington’s Birthday Roundup

Posted on February 22, 2025 by Jeffrey Manley

–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 →

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Roundup: End of a Literary Era

Posted on February 8, 2025 by Jeffrey Manley

–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 →

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Roundup: Theatrical Torture, Biographical Therapy and Lineage of Comic Novel

Posted on January 26, 2025 by Jeffrey Manley

–The Italian newspaper La Stampa for 25 January 2025 has an article by the late Gaia Servadio which is based on an interview with Graham Greene that seems to have taken place about 1978 (publication date of The Human Factor … Continue reading →

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MLK Day Roundup

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Jeffrey Manley

–The US-based Jesuit journal America has an article in its latest issue describing the differences and similarities of conversions to Roman Catholicism by writers and intellectuals in the US and UK. It opens with the UK example of Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Cousins, Catholics, Allegories and Adaptations

Posted on October 19, 2024 by Jeffrey Manley

–The London Review of Books has posted a review by Neal Acherson of the new biography of Claude Cockburn by his son Patrick.  This in mentioned in a previous post and is entitled “Believe Nothing Until It Has Been Officially … Continue reading →

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2023 Academic Papers

Posted on April 23, 2024 by Jeffrey Manley

The following academic papers with Evelyn Waugh in their titles appeared during calendar 2023. Abstracts have been included where available: –Victoria Fernandez Ruiz, “Metaphorical value in the metaphor of conversion: The sacred and profane memories of Capt. Charles Ryder in … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Schoolmaster Novelists

Posted on April 20, 2024 by Jeffrey Manley

–Literary biographer Jeffrey Meyers writing in TheArticle.com describes the early 20th Century school teaching careers of four English novelists. Here are the opening paragraphs: Aspiring writers have often tried their hand at teaching.  They have usually assumed that it would … Continue reading →

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75th Anniversary of “American Epoch” Commemorated

Posted on April 5, 2024 by Jeffrey Manley

Kenneth Craycraft writing in the religious journal Our Sunday Visitor notes that this year is the 75th anniversary of the publication of Waugh’s article in Life Magazine (19 September 1949) entitled “The American Epoch of the Catholic Church.” This followed … Continue reading →

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Editing Merton

Posted on March 5, 2024 by Jeffrey Manley

The Jesuit magazine America has posted a brief retrospective article describing Robert Giroux’s early professional coup with his 1948 publication of Thomas Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain. This is written by James T Keane. Evelyn Waugh played a part in the … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Anniversaries, Flemings and Nature Writing

Posted on September 30, 2023 by Jeffrey Manley

–A feature length article in the religious journal Crisis Magazine marks the anniversary of Waugh’s conversion to Roman Catholicism on 29 September 1930. This is written by S A McCarthy and entitled “The Curmudgeonly Catholic: Three Life Lessons from Evelyn … Continue reading →

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