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Category Archives: A Handful of Dust
The Baronets Heygate
A Northern Ireland blogger posting as Lord Belmont has put up a history of the Heygate family of which John Heygate was a member. Heygate is perhaps best remembered as having alienated the affections of Evelyn Waugh’s first wife. He … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies
Tagged Evelyn Gardner, John Heygate, Lord Belmont of Northern Ireland
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A Handful of Hard Cheese
Michael Deacon writing in the Daily Telegraph finds echoes of Waugh in a recent story. This involves the rescue of TV presenter and explorer Benedict Allen from the jumgles of Papua New Guinea into which he had disappeared. Deacon is: … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Alexandra Jacobs, Daily Telegraph, Michael Deacon, New York Times
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Simon Schama’s Guilty Pleasure
Historian, author and TV presenter Prof Simon Schama is interviewed by The Book Report column of the Toronto Globe and Mail. After identifying Tolstoy’s War and Peace as the book he has most reread (not too surprising for a historian), … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop
Tagged First Things, Globe and Mail, Guardian, Peter Hitichins, Simon Schama
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Waugh: Letter Writing, Divorce Reform, and Wadham College
The nondenominational religious journal First Things has an article about what is seen as the dying art of letter writing. This is written by R E Colombini and entitled “So Long, Age of Letters”. He uses as a case study … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged First Things, Law and Literature, Mary Francis Coady, Maurice Bowra, Robin Esser, The Times, Thomas Merton
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London in the Slump
A new book has been published about London in the 1930s. This is entitled Playboys and Mayfair Men and is written by Angus McLaren, Professor Emeritus at University of Victoria. The book focuses on a sensational jewel robbery at the … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Black Mischief, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Angus McLaren, Bookriot, Clay Andres, Shelter Island Reporter
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New Hollinghurst Novel Reviewed in Guardian
The Guardian reviewed Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel earlier this week. The review is by Alex Preston and opens with a link to a Waugh novel: Alan Hollinghurst’s sixth novel, The Sparsholt Affair, opens in Oxford during the second world war … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers, Oxford, The Loved One
Tagged Alan Hollinghurst, Alex Preston, Guardian, Luke O'Neill, Mark Voger, NJ.com, University Times
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Lost Children and Losing Margarine
The Guardian has published an article by Alex Clark about the theme of lost children in literature. The prime example is Ian McEwen’s Thatcher-era novel The Child in Time whch has been adapted for television by BBC/PBS in a 90-minute … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Adaptations, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Alex Clark, BBC, Ellen Turner, Guardian, Spectator, The Conversation
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Danish Journal Publishes Waugh Article
The Danish cultural journal Critique has published for the first time the full version of an essay on Waugh’s life and work written in 2009. This is entitled “Evelyn Waughs korstog mod moderniteten” (“Evelyn Waugh’s Crusade Against Modernity”) and is summarized … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Robbery Under Law, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged Crtique, Soren Besenbacher
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Handful, Oxford and North End Road
Author Gill Hornby in her Daily Mail column takes up the literary genre of expat novels. This is in response to two of her children expatriating themselves: We Brits didn’t only build the model for expat life, we’ve also provided its … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, A Little Learning, Academia, Diaries, Hampstead, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Christ Church, Daily Mail, expat novels, Gill Hornby, Hertford College, North End Road, TomWinnifrigh.com, YouTube
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