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Category Archives: Fiction
Roundup: From Aston Clinton to Holkham Hall
–Duncan Mclaren has expanded his discussion of Waugh’s school teaching career at Aston Clinton based on his newly available materials. The discussion has been posted on Duncan’s website. Here is an excerpt from the introduction to give you some idea … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Duncan McLaren, New Statesman, NSS Magazine, Words on Fire
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Labor Day Roundup
—Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington has announced a Fall schedule of literary podcasts and other activities. One of these features a four-hour discussion of Brideshead Revisited in two separate podcast episodes. Here is their description: One of the most … Continue reading
Dog Days Roundup
–BBC has announced the rebroadcast of a three-hour adaptation of Waugh’s wartime novel Put Out More Flags. This will air on BBC Radio 4 Extra over three successive days at 15:00p British time starting on Tuesday, 3 September 2024. Here’s … Continue reading
New York Times Promotes “The Loved One”
Waugh’s 1948 novella The Loved One seems to be getting a lot of press attention nowadays. Earlier this week the new CWEW edition was reviewed in the TLS, and now the book is recommended in the New York Times. This … Continue reading
TLS Reviews The Loved One
Jonathan Keates has reviewed the OUP’s new Collected Works edition of Waugh’s 1948 novel The Loved One. This appears in the current edition of the Times Literary Supplement (16 August 2024). The article is entitled: “Slumber Room, then Paradise: Evelyn … Continue reading
Roundup: War Trilogy, Conference and Campus Novel
—The Critic magazine has published a feature length article on Waugh’s war trilogy, Sword of Honour. This is written by Max Bayliss and is entitled “Waugh at war: Self-sacrifice, tradition and service seem to have been cast aside by today’s … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Conferences, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Duncan McLaren, The Criric
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Evelyn Waugh Studies 55.1 (Spring 2024)
The Society is pleased to post the latest edition of its journal Evelyn Waugh Studies. This is No. 55.1 (Spring 2024). The contents are described by the Society’s Secretary Jamie Collinson as follows: The winner of the EWS’ 2023 Undergraduate … Continue reading
Mid-July Roundup
–British author, commentator and journalist Gerald Warner has posted an article entitled “Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell–visions of a vanished Britain.” In this he compares the lives and writings of the two authors who were also friends in real life. … Continue reading
Roundup: An Election, a Film and a Lost Masterpiece.
—The Sunday Times has a story (7 July) in which Will Lloyd considers whether the recent election has brought social mobility back to the the British government and ended the domination of the “posh boys” who were the leaders of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Helena, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Aleteia, Rex Whistler, Sunday Times, The Mitford Sisters, The Oldie, The Tatler
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Evelyn Waugh and the Cancel Culture
–Simon Heffer has written a brief but interesting and amusing article about what he fears would be the attitude of today’s “Cancel Culture” to Evelyn Waugh first novel, Decline and Fall. This appeared in a recent issue of the Daily … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Simon Heffer
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