Category Archives: Fiction

Donald Trump, Pope Francis and Rex Mottram in Vanity Fair

Posted on May 24, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Paul Elie, “pontificating” (his pun) in Vanity Fair magazine, writes of the possible results of this week’s meeting between Donald Trump and Pope Francis. He begins by comparing their respective elections: How strange is this: a group of 115 unelected celibate men … Continue reading →

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Waugh and the Friedman Unit

Posted on May 21, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

On a blog specializing in stories about the Iraq War, blogger Alexander Harrowell describes what is known to those write about such things as the “Friedman Unit”: Those of us who blogged through the Iraq War will of course remember the Friedman … Continue reading →

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Christ Church Dust-up Brings Waugh Cites in Press

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A recent incident at Christ Church, an Oxford college, has been widely reported in the British press. This involved a student, Lavinia Woodward, who was studying to be a surgeon. In a reportedly drug-induced rage, she stabbed her boyfriend (whom … Continue reading →

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Scoop Profiled in Arkansas Paper

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Philip Martin has written an opinion column on Scoop which appears in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s online edition. Excluded from his wife’s book group’s discussion of the novel, he took the occasion to reconsider it (and Waugh in Abyssinia) in his … Continue reading →

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Sunset Boulevard and The Loved One (More)

Posted on May 16, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Another classic film blogger has posted an article noting, inter alia, the debt owed by Billy Wilder’s 1956 film Sunset Boulevard to Waugh’s novel The Loved One. (See previous posts.): The British author’s satirical The Loved One was published in 1948, after Waugh … Continue reading →

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USA Premiere of Decline and Fall Today

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Acorn-TV is premiering the BBC’s adaptation of Waugh’s first novel Decline and Fall today. All three episodes are available now for streaming, and a free one-week trial is on offer for those who do not already have subscriptions. Here’s the link … Continue reading →

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Decline and Fall in the US Papers

Posted on May 14, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The TV Critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, David Weigand, has written a quite favorable review of the BBC’s adaptation of Decline and Fall which will debut tomorrow in the US: Biting wit and a farcically frothy plot make “Decline … Continue reading →

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Lucy, Paula, Jane and Evelyn

Posted on May 13, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Columnist Jennifer Selway in her Daily Express entertainment gossip column brings Evelyn Waugh into a literary scholarship cat fight between Waugh biographer Paula Byrne, PhD (Liverpool), and BBC historical TV presenter Lucy Worsley, DPhil (Sussex), both of whom have also written … Continue reading →

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More Publicity for Decline and Fall US TV Debut

Posted on May 12, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The New York Times TV critic Neil Genzlinger has written a short preview of the TV adaptation of Decline and Fall that will premiere via online streaming Monday on Acorn TV:  Nobody does waggishness like the British, a skill on full … Continue reading →

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Article on Waugh and Refugees

Posted on May 11, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The current issue of the Brno Studies in English carries an article by Prof Carlos Villar Flor   entitled “Displacement and Exile in Evelyn Waugh’s Post-War Fiction”.  The article is based on a paper Prof Villar Flor presented at the 2015 … Continue reading →

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