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Category Archives: Basil Seal Rides Again
Roundup: America, America
–The Jesuit magazine America has posted a survey 0f its coverage of Waugh and his works dating back to 1931. This is entitled “God’s grump: The irascible Evelyn Waugh” and was written by James T Keane. Here are the opening … Continue reading
Posted in Basil Seal Rides Again, Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Items for Sale, Newspapers, Oxford, Work Suspended
Tagged America magazine, Clarissa Churchill, New York Times, Prof. Martin Stannard, The Times newspaper
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Waugh and the Clothes Press
A new print-only publication the Valet Magazine carries a feature-length article entitled “Waugh’s Last Hat”. This is written by Waugh biographer and weblogger Duncan McLaren. As usual, Duncan combines his scholarship and wit in describing Waugh’s sartorial history. He includes … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Basil Seal Rides Again, Newspapers
Tagged clothes, Duncan McLaren, Valet Magazine
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D-Day Roundup
–On yesterday’s 77th anniversary of the D-Day landings, The Herald (Scotland) posted a story by Ron McKay recounting how various people were occupied on the actual day of the event. Among those there were two writers: … JD Salinger, who … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Basil Seal Rides Again, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Letters, Newspapers, Photographs
Tagged Georgina Masson, Kepler's Books, The Herald (Scotland), TLS
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Waugh’s Politics in Fiction and Real Life
Writer and historian Minoo Dinshaw, author of the recently published biography of Steven Runciman, has written an article for Catholic Herald which traces Waugh’s political views through the characters in his novels. It is entitled “Forewaughned” and begins with this: … Continue reading
Posted in Basil Seal Rides Again, Black Mischief, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Catholic Herald, Minoo Dinshaw
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Waugh Things First
The religion and public policy journal First Things has posted two articles with discussions of works written by Evelyn Waugh: –The first is a review of a novel by Randy Boyagoda entitled Original Prin that has been described as a … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Basil Seal Rides Again, Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged artzy.net, First Things, Spectator
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Adventide Roundup
–There are two comments on similarities between the governmental missteps that lead to the release of a murderous jihadist terrorist and Evelyn Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall. Conservative columnist Charles Moore writes in the Daily Telegraph: The deaths inside and outside … Continue reading
Posted in Basil Seal Rides Again, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Telegraph, First Thinga, Society of Biblical Literature, Stuff.co.nz, Sydney Morning Herald
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Basil Seal Rides Yet Again
The Daily Telegraph has a review of a book entitled Master of Deception: The Wartime Adventures of Peter Fleming by Alan Ogden. This is about something called D Division (or “deception organization”) in the Inter-Services Liaison Department. Peter Fleming, Ian’s older … Continue reading
Posted in Basil Seal Rides Again, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Peter Fleming
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George Smiley and Basil Seal
The Evening Standard has reviewed John Le Carre’s latest novel A Legacy of Spies in which he revives his old characters from the George Smiley novels. The reviewer David Sexton has this observation about the pitfalls of this practice: Often it … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Basil Seal Rides Again, Discussions, Labels, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Evening Standard, John le Carre, New York University, Paula Byrne, Sir Arthur Evans, The Oldie
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Laycock Presentation Copies For Sale
Rare book seller Peter Harrington lists as new arrivals several presentation copies of books given to Robert and Angela Laycock. Robert was one of Waugh’s commanding officers in WWII. The first is a series of four copies of books sent to Angela … Continue reading
Posted in Autographs, Basil Seal Rides Again, Bibliophilia, First Editions, Love Among The Ruins, World War II
Tagged Peter Harrington Books, Robert Laycock
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Basil Seal Rides Yet Again
D.J. Taylor in the Independent announces low expectations for the BBC’s plans to revive its 1970s sit. com. Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em. The plan is to have the 74 year old Michael Crawford reprise his role as youthfully naive Frank Spencer among a … Continue reading
Posted in Basil Seal Rides Again, Black Mischief, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Television Programs, Work Suspended
Tagged Anthony Powell, BBC, D.J.Taylor, Independent newspaper, Michael Crawford, Some Mothers Do 'ave 'em
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