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Category Archives: Black Mischief
Waugh Watering Holes in the News
Two pubs associated with Evelyn Waugh’s life in the 1920-30s have recently been in the news: the Abingdon Arms in Beckley, Oxon., and the Fair View Inn in Llanddulas, North Wales. In one case the news is good, in the … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Events, Newspapers, Oxford, Remote People, Vile Bodies, Wales
Tagged Abingdon Arms Beckley, Daily Post, Fair View Inn, JustGiving.com, Llanddulas (North Wales)
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Ethiopia Explicated: Waugh and Wakanda
In an article posted on the news website Taki’s Magazine, journalist and blogger Steve Sailer offers what seems a good summary history of Ethiopia. Perhaps central to his explanation of why an ancient Christian civilization and monarchy survived in the … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Remote People, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia, When the Going Was Good
Tagged "Wakanda", Adam Nebbs, Counter-Currents.com, Ethiopia, James J O'Meara, South China Morning Post, Steve Sailer, Taki's Magazine
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Satirical Novel to be Adapted for TV
ITV has commissioned the adaptation for TV of J G Farrell’s 1978 novel The Singapore Grip. This is promised by online entertainment news magazine Deadline Hollywood to be of interest to Waugh fans. The adaptation will be by Christopher Hampton and … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Black Mischief, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Television
Tagged Christopher Hampton, Dateline Hollywood, ITV, J G Farrell, The Singapore Grip
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Waugh and the Nazis?
An article in the independent news and opinion website PULSE has an article by Anas el Hawat entitled “On the Astonishment That Nazis Can ‘Still’ Have Taste” that opens with this: Evelyn Waugh [sic], on a visit to Germany in … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged German politics, Nazi party, PULSE, Sir Evelyn Wrench
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Sotheby’s to Sell Small Waugh Collection
Sotheby’s London has scheduled a the sale of small collection of signed copies and first editions of books by Evelyn Waugh on 11-12 December. These are apparently from a larger otherwise unidentified Hampstead Collection of two collectors living in that … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Bibliophilia, Black Mischief, First Editions, London
Tagged Lygon family, Sotheby's
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Black Mischief in New Right Journal
Waugh’s somewhat neglected novel Black Mischief is reviewed in an artlcle posted in the Books Against Time column of the North American New Right journal, published by Counter-Currents Publishing. The review is No. 4 in a series entitled “Masterpieces of … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh
Tagged Books Against Time, North American New Right, Quintilian
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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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Eating People is Still Wrong
Andrew Donaldson writing in his column in the South African newspaper The Weekend Argus discusses the current status of cannibalism. This article, written with tongue firmly in cheek, was inspired by recent expressions of concern among South African politicians about … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged Andrew Donaldson, cannibalism, The Weekend Argus
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Leigh Fermor Novel Reprinted
New York Review Books has republished the only novel of Patrick Leigh Fermor. This was originally published in 1953 and was entitled The Violins of Saint Jacques. It is about a fictional Caribbean island where a volcano erupts and disrupts … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Helena, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Diana Cooper, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Roderick Beaton, TLS
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The Roman Empire and Freedom of Movement
The feature of EU membership which more than any other seems to have contributed to Britain’s exit from that institution is freedom of movement. Yet, as explained in a recent article in the Catholic Herald, there is nothing particularly innovative … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Black Mischief, Catholicism, Helena, Newspapers
Tagged Catholic Herald, Freedom of Movement, Mary Beard, Natural Family Planning, The Rad Trad
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