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Washington’s Birthday Roundup
–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
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Television Programs, Vile Bodies, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged borkena.com, David Lodge, Evening Standard, New Criterion, New York Review of Books
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Roundup: End of a Literary Era
–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
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Oxford, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged David Lodge, New Statesman, Somerville College Oxford, St John's College, The Spectator, Washington Post
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Roundup: Theatrical Torture, Biographical Therapy and Lineage of Comic Novel
–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
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged Cherwell (newspaper), Graham Greene, La Stampa, New York Times, Prychology Today, Thomistic Institute
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MLK Day Roundup
–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
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers
Tagged America, Lytham Hall Lancashire, New York Adventure Club, The Washington Free Beacon, William Boyd
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Roundup: Cousins, Catholics, Allegories and Adaptations
–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
2023 Academic Papers
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
Posted in Academia, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Love Among The Ruins, Sword of Honour
Tagged Harold Acton
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Roundup: Schoolmaster Novelists
–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
Posted in A Little Learning, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Podcast, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged American Spectator, EvergreenPodcast, Irish Examiner, Jeffrey Meyers, The Article
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75th Anniversary of “American Epoch” Commemorated
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
Posted in Catholicism, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Kenneth Crayvraft, Life Magazine, Our Sunday Visitor
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Editing Merton
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
Posted in Catholicism, Newspapers
Tagged America: The Jesuit Review, Elected Silence, Robert Giroux, Thomas Merton
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Roundup: Anniversaries, Flemings and Nature Writing
–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
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Ninety-Two Days, Scoop
Tagged Christie's, Crisis magazine, Financial Times, Ian Fleming, Sydney Morning Herald, The Spectator, The Times newspaper
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