Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited

Julia’s Meltdown and Church Unity

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

In the latest issue of the Roman Catholic journal Commonweal, there is a review of a book called To Change the Church by Ross Douthat, the conservative commentator on the New York Times. The review is entitled “A Precarious Unity?” and … Continue reading →

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Brideshead: Crime Story, Aesthetes and a Scientist

Posted on March 16, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The second season of the TV series American Crime Story is nearing its end on the FX cable channel in the USA. It has just begun on BBC and has reached Episode 3 this week. It is entitled the Assassination … Continue reading →

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Hard Cases: Drugs and Reality

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The Spanish magazine Historia y Vida based in Barcelona has an article this month about Brenda Dean Paul. She was a member of the bright young people, and the story by Eva Melús connects her with Waugh’s novels of the … Continue reading →

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Waugh Criminal

Posted on March 12, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

A new book about criminality in WWII (Merlin at War) has been written by Mark Ellis and is discussed on Historyextra.com  (official website of the BBC History Magazine). The article opens with this: The Second World War was a golden … Continue reading →

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Weekend Roundup: Brideshead in the News

Posted on March 9, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Alan Hollinghurst’s latest novel The Sparsholt Affair  is being released in the USA next week and is reviewed in the Boston Globe. The Globe’s reviewer, Priscilla Gilman, as with several in the UK, notes the book’s conections with Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited: … Continue reading →

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Weekend Roundup: French Connections

Posted on March 4, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

In a Times review of  Nina Caplan’s new book The Wandering Vine: Wine, the Romans and Me, reviewer Michael Henderson includes this as his opening: “O for a beaker full of the warm south!” Keats, who died in Rome, gave … Continue reading →

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Roundup: From Seven Deadly Sins to Four Brandy Alexanders

Posted on February 27, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

–The Spanish newspaper El Mundo has a story about the career of novelist Ian Fleming, best known for his James Bond novels and films. This begins with a discussion of Fleming’s less well-known role as International Editor of The Sunday … Continue reading →

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Naim Attallah Interviews Harold Acton

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Writer and publisher Naim Attallah has posted on his weblog what looks like the complete text of his interview of Harold Acton in 1990. This was only a few years before Acton’s death in 1994. Acton and Waugh were friends … Continue reading →

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Private Chapels (More)

Posted on February 24, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

In a recent post we mentioned a newly built Roman Catholic private chapel at Culham Court near Henley in which regular services are held. The Catholic Herald has an article this week by Sarah Crofts about several more such private … Continue reading →

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Dornford Yates Revival?

Posted on February 11, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Dornford Yates (the pen name of Cecil Wm. Mercer, 1885-1960) is a writer who thrived in the interwar period but who has never enjoyed a revival. He is usually linked with thriller writers of the period such as John Buchan, … Continue reading →

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