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Category Archives: Decline and Fall
A Tale of Two Atwaters
Duncan McLaren has posted an article about an interesting crossover between novels of Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell. On Waugh’s side this appears in Work Suspended (written 1939/published 1942) in which the minor character of Arthur Atwater appears. The connection … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Work Suspended
Tagged Anthony Powell, Duncan McLaren
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Waugh’s Politics Surveyed in “The Critic”
The Critic magazine has published another article on Evelyn Waugh following hard on the short article by Eleanor Doughty dealing with Brideshead Revisited, discussed in two previous posts. The latest posting is a feature length article by Bruce Newsome who … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law, Vile Bodies, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Bruce Newsome, Politics, The Critic
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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
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Lectures, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Durham University, Financial Times, Irish Times, Oxford University Press, The Tablet
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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
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Interviews, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour
Tagged Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Kate Evans, Nicholas Skakespeare, The Books That Made Me
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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
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Film, Interviews, Newspapers, Ronald Knox, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, The Times, The Wanderer
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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
Posted in Adaptations, Biographies, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Ronald Knox
Tagged Daily Mail, DBC Pierre, Epoch Times, First Things, Guardian, Irish Times, The Scotsman
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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
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Economist, First Things, Harry Mottram, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Tatler, The Spectator
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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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