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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Film Emerges in Weinstein Scandal
In wake of the sexual harassment scandal involving US filmmaker Harvey Weinstein, the New York Post has reported an incident arising from the production of the 2008 film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. In 2007, Weinstein visited the production on location … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers
Tagged Emma Thompson, Harvey Weinstein, Hayley Atwell, New York Post
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New Hollinghurst Novel Reviewed in Guardian
The Guardian reviewed Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel earlier this week. The review is by Alex Preston and opens with a link to a Waugh novel: Alan Hollinghurst’s sixth novel, The Sparsholt Affair, opens in Oxford during the second world war … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers, Oxford, The Loved One
Tagged Alan Hollinghurst, Alex Preston, Guardian, Luke O'Neill, Mark Voger, NJ.com, University Times
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Julia’s Meltdown and the “Filial Correction”
The Catholic Herald has an article by its US editor Michael Davis in which he explains what is politely called the “filial correction” in Roman Catholic circles. This is a group which has written to the Pope explaining how he … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers
Tagged "filial correction", Catholic Herald, Michael Davis
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Waugh and the Country House (more)
Evelyn Waugh’s biographer Paula Byrne has reviewed the book House of Fiction by Phyllis Richardson in the current TLS. This book has been mentioned in several recent posts but Byrne focuses more closely on Richardson’s descriptions of Evelyn Waugh’s relations … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Country Houses, Paula Byrne, Phyllis Richardson, TLS
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Rex Mottram Redux
In his American Conservative magazine weblog, Senior Editor Rod Dreher has cited Waugh’s character Rex Mottram from Brideshead Revisited in connection with recent actions of President Trump. Dreher had previously adopted the term “Mottramism,” originally coined by Canadian Blogger, Mark Cameron, who … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Mark Cameron, Mottramism, Rod Dreher, The American Conservative
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Danish Journal Publishes Waugh Article
The Danish cultural journal Critique has published for the first time the full version of an essay on Waugh’s life and work written in 2009. This is entitled “Evelyn Waughs korstog mod moderniteten” (“Evelyn Waugh’s Crusade Against Modernity”) and is summarized … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Robbery Under Law, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged Crtique, Soren Besenbacher
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Alastair Graham, Steven Runciman and More Misfits
A blogger named John (who lives in the Southern US) posted on his weblog Notes from a Common-place Book a report of his recent trip to England. This posting is dated 4 September 2017. He sought out gravesites of writers he considered “misfits” … Continue reading
Evelyn Waugh at the National Trust, Edinburgh Festival and Houston,TX
Evelyn Waugh is appearing all over the place in today’s media reports: In the internet newspaper iNews, there is a story about problems being rained upon the National Trust, one of Britain’s once most beloved institutions. The Trust are the stewards of … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Festivals, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Al Murray, Edinburgh Festival, Houston TX, iNews, Letters Live, National Trust, The American Conservative, Waugh Drive Bridge
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Rock Band Named “Flyte” to Issue First Album
A London-based rock band calling itself “Flyte” is about to issue its first album called “The Loved Ones.” Their guitarist Will Taylor has explained the band’s literary associations in an interview by Robin Murray on the website of Clash magazine: Q: … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Clash Magazine, Flyte, Island Records, music, Robin Murray, Will Taylor
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