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Category Archives: Decline and Fall
LRB Posts Waugh Article
The London Review of Books has posted a feature length article by Seamus Perry relating to several of Waugh’s books. This is entitled “Isn’t London Hell?” The article ostensibly reviews 5 of the 6 Waugh novels published late last year … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged London Review of Books, Penguin Books, Seamus Perry
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Roundup: Late Stories, Stately Festivals and a Rare (but Misspelled) Burgundy
–This week’s TLS has a review of Inez Holden’s late stories recently published in a collection issued by the Anthony Powell Society. Here’s an excerpt from the review by Lindsay Duguid: …The stories share an elusive quality, with only the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Collections, Decline and Fall, Festivals, Newspapers
Tagged Clos de Bèze, DBC Pierre, Guardian, Inez Holden, The Oldie, The Spectator, The Times, TLS
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Memorial Day/Spring Bank Holiday Roundup
—The Spectator has posted a memorial tribute to its recently deceased columnist Jeremy Clarke. This is by David Goodhart who writes that he gave Clarke his start as a journalist. Clarke’s longest and best known gig was the Low-Life column … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Obituaries, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Waugh Family
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Jeremy Clarke, Martin Amis, The Daily Sceptic, The Lamp, The Spectator, The Times, Washington Post
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Roundup: Mostly Books and a Makeover in North Wales
—The Spectator reviews a book by journalist and author Simon Winchester entitled Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge from Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic. Reviewer Dennis Duncan mentions that there is a discussion of Waugh’s Scoop in the book: … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Daily Mail, Franco, Jacobin.com, Literary Potpourri, National Catholic Register, The Spectator
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Presidents’ Day Roundup
—The London Magazine has posted two articles from its recent offerings that comment on Evelyn Waugh. The first is from an unsigned Poetry and Politics column: Contemporary parliamentarians, in my experience, are not specially attuned to contemporary verse. There are … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged New Statesman, The Conversation, The Economist, The London Magazine, The Sun, W W Jacobs
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Groundhog Day Roundup
—The Economist started the week with a story headed by this discussion of a Waugh novel: Evelyn Waugh, a satirist of pre-war England and of the careless aristocrats who ran it, would have had a field day with the modern … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Letters, Newspapers, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Com, iNews.co.uk, New Criterion, The Economist, The Oldie, The Spectator, truthdig
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Roundup
–Duncan McLaren sent over an interesting exchange relating to Waugh’s possible use of Peter Quennell as a model for characters in his novels. His an excerpt from the email that started it: Dear Mr McLaren, I am a reader of … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Film, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged National Catholic Reporter, OSV News, Patheos, Peter Quennell, The Sunday Times
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Thanksgiving Roundup
–Iona McLaren writng in the Daily Telegraph considers the problem posed by readers who want to be warned against reading something that might upset them–in this case about books in which animals die. The article opens with this: The US … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Letters, Newspapers, Television Programs, Theater, World War II
Tagged Chelsea Arts Club, Daily Telegraph, El Diaria Cultura (Uruguay), The Guardian, The Times newspaper
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Waugh and Intermodernism
An academic article entitled “Intermodernism and the Ethics of Lateness in Evelyn Waugh and Harold Acton” and published in English Studies, v. 103, Number 6 (2022) has been posted on the internet. This is written by Allan Killner-Johnson, University of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies
Tagged Allan Killner-Johnson, English Studies, Harold Acton
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