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Category Archives: Decline and Fall
Labor Day Roundup
–Sebastian Payne writing in the Financial Times describes a non-boring dinner party of his own contrivance. The venue will be Riley’s Fish Shack at Tynemouth on the northeast coast of England and the chef will be Adam Riley, apparently owner … Continue reading
Nicholas Shakespeare Interviewed on ABC
The Australian network ABC has posted a podcast of its literary program The Bookshelf that Made Me. This is intended to go beyond the constraints of its broadcast version, and its first guest is Nicholas Shakespeare. He is best known … Continue reading
Roundup: Agony Aunts and Metroland
–In the Daily Telegraph, Rowan Pelling muses over whether novelists would make good advice to the lovelorn “agony aunts”. Pelling has always thought Edith Wharton would be excellent and notes that Simone de Beauvoir and Anaïs Nin in fact functioned … Continue reading
Roundup
–The Irish Times has a story about a visit to Birr Castle in Ireland. This is the home of the Earls of Rosse, and the present Lady Rosse conducts the IT ‘s reporter, Rosita Boland, through the house in a televised … Continue reading
End-of-July Roundup
—The Economist magazine’s 1843 section has an article by Catherine Nixey entitled: “The death of nostalgia”. It is subtitled: “People used to pine for a simpler life. Now they’ve got it – and it’s not all it’s cracked up to … Continue reading
A Handful of Offense
Writing in the Catholic Herald, novelist and critic Philip Hensher considers the implications of the current movement to suppress or destroy monuments and other public expressions that give offense to the present generation. This is in an article entitled: “Many … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Remote People
Tagged Catholic Herald, Philip Hensher
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Harold Acton (and Martin Green)
Duncan McLaren has added Harold Acton to Waugh’s pantheon of friends. On this occasion he writes it up as a straight narrative rather that as an addition to the crowd gathering at the now postponed Brideshead Festival at Castle Howard. … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall
Tagged Harold Acton, Martin Burgess Green
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Juneteenth Roundup
–A recent article in the Times newspaper criticizes plans for reopening some schools after lockdown with what it sees as a confusing “blend” of in-school live and at-home online teaching. Alex Massie opens the article with a quote from Evelyn … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scott-King's Modern Europe, Waugh in Abyssinia, When the Going Was Good
Tagged Daily Mail, Il Primato Nazionale, Information.dk, Jakob Illeborg, Kenyon Review, London Library, The Times
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Brideshead @ 75: Tablet, Quadrant, Penguin
More commemorations of the Brideshead anniversary have been posted: –Eleanor Doughty writing in The Tablet confesses in her introduction that, despite being a dedicated Waugh fan, she has never liked this particular volume. She surveys other literary journalists and scholars, … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers
Tagged Eleanor Doughty, Mark McGinness, Penguin Books, Quadrant, The Tablet
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Wanted: Comic Novelists
Writing in the UK-based magazine The Critic, Alexander Larman bemoans the lack of comic novels in today’s literary marketplace. This is in an article entitled “Where is the Waugh or Wodehouse of our time? Comic writing: light distraction or social mirror?” … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Fiction, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Waugh Family
Tagged Alexander Larman, comic novels, The Critic
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