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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
Spring Equinox Roundup
—The Economist has an article about the updating of the “basket of goods” put together by the UK’s Office for National Statistics for the purpose of measuring inflation. Here is an excerpt: To read the contents list of the basket … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Newspapers, Translations
Tagged Liberties, The Economist
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St Patrick’s Day Roundup
–Ben Lawrence writes in the Daily Telegraph that “The arts are now terrified of God”. Here are the opening paragraphs: “We don’t do God.” Such was Alastair Campbell’s Rottweiler-like shutdown of journalists asking about the faith of his then-boss Tony … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Country Life, Daily Telegraph, The Express, The Fleming Foundation, The Guardian
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WSJ at Castle Howard
The Wall Street Journal carries a story about how the Howard family have over the years renovated Castle Howard. The article is by J S Marcus and the photographs by Joanna Yee. Here’s an excerpt: …The Lake Sitting Room is … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers
Tagged Castle Howard, Wall Street Journal
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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: From Clubs to Travels
–The Daily Telegraph reports that one of Waugh’s London clubs has voted to continue to exclude women members: A PRIVATE gentlemen’s club in Mayfair has voted against admitting women for the first time, The Telegraph has learnt. The Savile Club, … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Collections, Love Among The Ruins
Tagged Chaim Potok, Daily Telegraph, Diariojudio.com, Literary Review, Norman Lewis, The New Criterion
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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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Winter Solstice Roundup
–Novelist Robert Harris has recommended the best 5 collections of letters for the Wall Street Journal. Those of Evelyn Waugh are included: Born in London in 1903, Evelyn Waugh was a reactionary whose distaste for the modern world included the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop
Tagged Anglotopia, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Tablet, Wall Street Journal
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Advent Roundup
–D J Taylor has written a thoughtful essay on the current status of literary biography. This is posted in The Critic Magazine. Here are the introductory paragraphs: Q. Who, just under a century ago, wrote the following, and about whom? … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Podcast, Rossetti: His Life and Works, World War II
Tagged Andrew Pettegree, BBC, D.J.Taylor, Penguin Books, The Critic
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