Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited

Decline and Fall in the National Review

Posted on May 24, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Kyle Smith, drama critic of the National Review, has written a favorable review of the recent TV adaptation of Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall. This is now running on what Smith describes as “the superb streaming service Acorn TV, which … Continue reading →

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Donald Trump, Pope Francis and Rex Mottram in Vanity Fair

Posted on May 24, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Paul Elie, “pontificating” (his pun) in Vanity Fair magazine, writes of the possible results of this week’s meeting between Donald Trump and Pope Francis. He begins by comparing their respective elections: How strange is this: a group of 115 unelected celibate men … Continue reading →

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Christ Church Dust-up Brings Waugh Cites in Press

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A recent incident at Christ Church, an Oxford college, has been widely reported in the British press. This involved a student, Lavinia Woodward, who was studying to be a surgeon. In a reportedly drug-induced rage, she stabbed her boyfriend (whom … Continue reading →

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Lucy, Paula, Jane and Evelyn

Posted on May 13, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Columnist Jennifer Selway in her Daily Express entertainment gossip column brings Evelyn Waugh into a literary scholarship cat fight between Waugh biographer Paula Byrne, PhD (Liverpool), and BBC historical TV presenter Lucy Worsley, DPhil (Sussex), both of whom have also written … Continue reading →

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Joseph Epstein Reviews Waugh

Posted on May 11, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Veteran US essayist, short-story writer and former editor of The American Scholar, Joseph Epstein, has written a review of Philip Eade’s biography of Evelyn Waugh. This appears in the latest issue of the Claremont Review of Books and is as … Continue reading →

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Cousin Jasper’s Advice

Posted on April 28, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Rosamund Urwin in the Evening Standard has written an article about degree results. She opens with this: In Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited, the protagonist Charles Ryder receives advice from his cousin Jasper before starting his Oxford degree. “You want a … Continue reading →

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Leicester City, The Novel and Evelyn Waugh

Posted on April 26, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

BBC Radio 4 is repeating a December series by Simon Barnes entitled Everything You Think About Sport is Wrong. Episode 4 is called “The Novel” and explains how sport is like this literary form. Both tell a story and can spread … Continue reading →

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Philip Sassoon, The Duke of Kent and the Sitwells

Posted on April 22, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Waugh crops up in a number of articles about the upper class in the interwar period. In  Spear’s magazine, editor William Cash reviews a book by Damian Collins, MP for Folkestone and Hythe. This is a biography of Philip Sassoon entitled … Continue reading →

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Another Norwegian Article on Brideshead

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The recent new translation of Brideshead Revisited into Norwegian has engendered another article. See earlier posts. This appears in a Norwegian-language Roman Catholic  weblog and is written by Fr Oddvar Moi. The article contains a brief description of Waugh’s early life … Continue reading →

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Waugh on Desert Island Discs

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Reader David Lull has provided the results of a search for Evelyn Waugh on the BBC database for the entire run of its Desert Island Discs program. Waugh was never a castaway and, if ever asked, he would have surely declined. … Continue reading →

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