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Category Archives: Decline and Fall
New Academic Study of Waugh Issued
Bloomsbury Publishing has announced the publication of a new academic study of Waugh. This is entitled Evelyn Waugh’s Exterior Modernism: Cinema, Satire, Comedy and is written by Waugh Society member and co-editor of Evelyn Waugh Studies, Yuexi Liu. Here are the … Continue reading
Roundup: Writers on Waugh
–Two writers have posted a discussion of Waugh’s novel The Loved One. This is on YouTube and involves PhDs Kevin McAleer and Bruce Newsome, each of whom has written a book satirizing California. Here is a description of their talk: … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Helena, Newspapers, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Selina Hastings, The Critic, The Tatler, YouTube
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Happy New Year and Welcome to Public Domain
Several papers have been carrying the story on books to be released today (1 January 2026) from copyright publishing restrictions and into the public domain. Among these, Waugh’s Vile Bodies has been prominently mentioned. It was published as his second … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Collections, Decline and Fall, Fiction, Labels, Vile Bodies
Tagged Copyright, New Editions
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John Carey: b. 5 April 1935, d. 11 December 2025: R.I.P.
John Carey, former Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford and one of his generation’s most noted literary critics, died last week at the age of 92. His obituary appeared, inter alia, in the Guardian, The Times and the Daily … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Obituaries, Oxford
Tagged Daily Telegraph, John Carey
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Mid-December Roundup
–Charles Moore writes in the Daily Telegraph a critique of the newly issued US National Security Strategy. The article is entitled “Civilisation erasure is real, but Donald Trump is part of the problem,” and opens with this: Amid stiff competition … Continue reading
Octoberfest Roundup
–The scripts of the TV series “All Creatures Great and Small” are being posted on the internet. Here’s an excerpt from an episode from the final series (No. 6) in which one of the vets is being introduced to a … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Biographies, Decline and Fall, Internet, Interviews, Newspapers, Television Programs, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged America magazine, BBC, Muriel Spark, The Mirror, The Oldie
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Early August Roundup
–Novelist Dan Fesperman in LitHub.com discusses five novels which are set in realistic but imaginary places. One of those is Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop: …Waugh’s skewering of Fleet Street, published in 1938, is set in the East Africa nation of Ishmaelia, … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged CentMagazine.co.uk, LitHub.com, Prospect Magazine, The Oldie, The Times
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Simon J. James (1950-2025) R.I.P.
Duncan McLaren has advised that literary scholar Prof. Simon J James died earlier this week. He was active in the EWS and was editor of the Decline and Fall volume of the OUP’s Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. This would be … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Obituaries, Vile Bodies
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Juneteenth Roundup
–This week’s Sunday Telegraph has an article entitled “The books that every 16-year-old boy should be reading.” This included short selections by several writers, including Simon Heffer who recommends Waugh’s Decline and Fall: When I was 16 and thinking of … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law, Scoop, Television Programs, The Loved One
Tagged Baltimore Sun, Sunday Telegraph, Victorian Blood Book, Women's Wear Daily
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Roundup: Single-Sex Schools, The Mitfords, and Tales from Amazonia
–In last week’s Sunday Telegraph, Rowan Pelling had an article entitled “When single-sex schools die, will we all be poorer?” Here is an extract: …I can’t help wondering how the shelves of children will look in 20 years after all … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Labels, Newspapers, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, Tatler, The Mitfords
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