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Category Archives: Fiction
Evelyn Waugh, Mark Twain, and US Election
Christopher Buckley, writing in the New York Times, invokes Evelyn Waugh in a review of an audiobook of Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Buckley turned on the recording and ran it straight through for 8 hours to … Continue reading
Vile Bodies, with an Emphasis on the Vile
The Sydney Morning Herald reviews a recently-opened exhibit of contemporary Chinese art that is somewhat misleadingly entitled “Vile Bodies.” Vile Bodies is a catchy title but there are very few points of comparison between Evelyn Waugh’s novel about the party-going lifestyles of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Events, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Sydney Morning Herald
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Waugh and Nostalgia
The Washington Post’s theatre critic Peter Marks waxes nostalgic in response to the current period of political turmoil consuming the United States. Most prominently, in a recent column entitled “Nostalgia! Yestalgia!”, he harks back to the “soothing” musical comedies of Rodgers and … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Miscellaneous, Newspapers
Tagged Nostalgia, Peter Marks, Washington Post
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Review of Helena in Roman Catholic Journal
The Roman Catholic online journal Crisis Magazine, published by the Sophia Institute Press, has posted a retrospective review of Waugh’s 1950 historical novel Helena, possibly his least read work of book-length fiction. The review is entitled “A Catholic Satirist at Work” … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Helena
Tagged Crisis magazine, Michael de Sapio
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Memoir of Brideshead TV Film in Vanity Fair
Michael Lindsay-Hogg, the original director of the 1981 Granada TV film production of Brideshead Revisited, has written a memoir of his experience. This is published in the current issue of Vanity Fair magazine and is entitled “Inside the Making of … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Derek Granger, Granada TV, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Vanity Fair
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Mr and Mrs Chatterbox
Today’s Daily Express carries a story (reproduced in PressReader) about a woman named Doris Delevigne who was one of the few working-class members of the Bright Young People. Born in 1900, she pulled herself up from the lower classes with the … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Express, Doris Delevigne, Lord Castlerosse, Lyndsy Spence
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Commonweal Republishes Waugh Story
On the occasion of Evelyn Waugh’s birthday last week, the independent US Roman Catholic magazine Commonweal has republished his 1953 story of the dystopian future, Love Among the Ruins. The story made its first US appearance in Commoneweal’s issue dated 31 July 1953, … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Catholicism, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers
Tagged Commonweal, George Orwell
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A Week of Waugh
A review of the preceding week’s online press and blogs turns up several references to Evelyn Waugh. The New York Public Library’s blog contains a short article on the occasion of Waugh birthday, recounting the origins of The Loved One: … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Baltimore Sun, Movie Nation, New York Public Library, Observer (NY), Robert Byron, The Guardian
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The Cherwell Revisits Waugh’s Oxford
The Oxford student newspaper the Cherwell has an article by Altair Brandon-Salmon that compares the Oxford described by Waugh in Brideshead Revisited with that of today. He uses as his text the tutorial on Oxford manners provided to Charles Ryder by … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Cherwell (newspaper)
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Brideshead Reconfectioned
The Daily Mail has run a story (“It’s the Great Brideshead Bake Off!”) about a project by the new occupants of Castle Howard to remake the building in the form of a cake in an effort to promote Christmas season … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers
Tagged Castle Howard, Daily Mail
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