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Category Archives: Decline and Fall
Roundup: From Aston Clinton to Holkham Hall
–Duncan Mclaren has expanded his discussion of Waugh’s school teaching career at Aston Clinton based on his newly available materials. The discussion has been posted on Duncan’s website. Here is an excerpt from the introduction to give you some idea … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Duncan McLaren, New Statesman, NSS Magazine, Words on Fire
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Labor Day Roundup
—Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington has announced a Fall schedule of literary podcasts and other activities. One of these features a four-hour discussion of Brideshead Revisited in two separate podcast episodes. Here is their description: One of the most … Continue reading
Evelyn Waugh and the Cancel Culture
–Simon Heffer has written a brief but interesting and amusing article about what he fears would be the attitude of today’s “Cancel Culture” to Evelyn Waugh first novel, Decline and Fall. This appeared in a recent issue of the Daily … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Simon Heffer
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Roundup: Waugh’s Highclere Moments
—Tatler magazine has a story about Lady Carnarvon, resident of the country house that has been the setting for the TV series and films of Downton Abbey. Another of these is being produced. Here are the opening paragraphs of the … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail, Hoover Institution, Journal of European Studies, Tatler
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Bank Holiday/Memorial Day Roundup
–Novelist Kevin Kwan was recently interviewed in LitHub. This was on the occasion of last week’s issuance of his latest novel Lies and Weddings. Here’s the opening: Kevin Kwan’s much anticipated new novel, Lies and Weddings, is out today [21 … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Interviews, Newspapers, Oxford, Radio Programs, Vile Bodies
Tagged ArabNews, BBC, LitHub, The Spectator, Vogue
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Roundup: Schoolmaster Novelists
–Literary biographer Jeffrey Meyers writing in TheArticle.com describes the early 20th Century school teaching careers of four English novelists. Here are the opening paragraphs: Aspiring writers have often tried their hand at teaching. They have usually assumed that it would … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Podcast, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged American Spectator, EvergreenPodcast, Irish Examiner, Jeffrey Meyers, The Article
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Tax Day (U.S.) Roundup
–A review of the recent Netflix film entitled Scoop appears in The Hollywood Reporter and several other papers. It is written by Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell and opens with this: Scoop is a dramatized feature about the BBC’s Newsnight team … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Nicholas Shakespeare, Philip Eade, The Hollywood Reporter, The Oldie, Washington Post
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Late Winter Roundup
–The Daily Telegraph has an article by Bernard Richards in which he considers how difficult it can be to translate idiomatic English words and phrases into French. He also notes Evelyn Waugh had struggled with the same problem: …English idioms … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Internet, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Jack Whitehall, The Times newspaper, Wall Street Journal
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Valentines Day Roundup
–The BBC has reposted a 2022 episode of its art series Fake or Fortune. This involves a drawing said to be by the painter Modigliani that was owned by Waugh’s friend Sacheverell Sitwell (brother of Edith and Osbert). Here’s an … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Music, Observer, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Bridgeman Images, country house, Observer, Sunday Times, The Oldie
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Roundup: Podcast, Public Domain and Plas Dulas
–The London Review of Books has announced its annual program of monthly literary podcasts for the coming year. This is called Close Readings. One of these wil focus on satire and will discuss, inter alia, Evelyn Waugh’s early novel A … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Decline and Fall, Podcast, Wales
Tagged London Review of Books, NorthWales Live, Standard Ebooks
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