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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh and the Notre Dame Fire
References to Evelyn Waugh have appeared in two stories relating to the destructive fire at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. Posted in the Spectator, an article by Douglas Murray opens with this: Civilization only ever hangs by a … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Diaries, Newspapers
Tagged Ann Pasternak Slater, Catholic World Report, Notre Dame Fire, The Spectator
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Academic Roundup: Vagabond-language and decadent arcadias
The following articles appeared in academic journals during 2018 and were not previously mentioned in our postings. Abstracts or excerpts from introductory materials are provided as available: –Helena M. Tomko, “A Good Laugh is Hard to Find: From destructive satire … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Remote People, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Academic Journals
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Fleabag and Julia Flyte
The final episode of Fleabag’s second TV series was broadcast yesterday on BBC. The series has occasioned more than the usual amount of comment in the press. See earlier post. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Serena Davies has high praise … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Daily Telegraph, Fleabag, Graham Greene, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Serena Davies
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Roundup: Lenten Love and Lots of Books
–In the Church Life Journal published by University of Notre Dame, Patrick Tomassi has written an essay on the themes of love in Brideshead Revisited and their particular relevance to the observance of Lent. Here is a summary: Sorting out … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alec Waugh, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop
Tagged Church Life Journal, Daily News (Sri Lanka), Evening Standard, Guardian, Mississipi State University, Palestine Chronicle
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Justin Cartwright (1943-2018): R.I.P.
In a recent issue of TLS, DJ Taylor reviews the works of South Africa-born British novelist Justin Cartwright who died late last year in London at 75. He wrote 17 novels (although, as Taylor notes, he disowned some early ones) … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Guardian, Johannesburg Review of Books, Justin Cartwright, TLS
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Roundup: Fleabag and Brexit
—The Times earlier this week carried a review of an ongoing BBC TV series called Fleabag, currently in its 2nd season. The review by Ann Marie Hourihane opens with this: God is what you’ve got left when you’re done with sex; … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged Aldous Huxley, BBC, scoop.co.nz, Selina Hastings, The New Yorker, The Times, TLS
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Literary Chagford
The following paragraphs open a recent story in The Moorlander, a local Dartmoor area newspaper: Chagword, Dartmoor’s Literary Festival, [was held last] weekend with big named authors coming to the festival in Chagford, but literary links go much further back, … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Locations, Newspapers
Tagged Dartmoor Literary Festival, Easton Court Hotel, Karen Farrington, The Moorlander
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Norman Douglas: Forgotten Author?
An article about writer Norman Douglas (noted pedophile) has been inspired by the flurry of activity stirred up by a recent HBO documentary about the posthumous reputation of the singer Michael Jackson. This is by the author of a forthcoming … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Labels, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Norman Douglas, Rachel Hope Cleves, San Francisco Chronicle, South Wind, The Spectator
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Roundup: Laura Waugh’s Lent
–In the Guardian, William Keegan compares the Brexit chaos to Waugh’s Decline and Fall: In order to switch off from Brexit in the evenings, your correspondent has taken to re-reading his favourite novels. Yet there is no escape! At the … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Scoop, Waugh Family
Tagged Alma Guillermoprieto, Brexit, Columbia Journalism Review, Daily Mail, Dave Wood, Guardian, Laura Waugh, The Oldie
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