Category Archives: Fiction

Unfaithful Wives in the Guardian

Posted on December 3, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Novelist Piers Paul Read has compiled a list of the Top 10 Novels About Unfaithful Wives  earlier this week in the Guardian. Among those named are Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina. It seemed odd that there was nothing by … Continue reading →

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Waugh on Writing x 3

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Waugh scores a hat trick in today’s press with three stories citing him on the art of writing. In the Daily Express, Waugh appears in a review of the BBC’s ongoing series based on John Lanchester’s 2012 novel Capital. The … Continue reading →

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Fitzroy Maclean Commemorated on St. Andrew’s Day

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Fitzroy Maclean, Waugh’s commanding officer in Yugoslavia, was commemorated yesterday in an editorial on the Foreign and Colonial Office weblog. The occasion was St. Andrew’s Day. Maclean was, needless to say, Scottish. Here’s the opening paragraph: ‘A man of daring … Continue reading →

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Waugh in Round Britain Quiz

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

A Waugh novel was part of a question in a recent Round Britain Quiz on BBC Radio 4. The teams were Scotland and Wales and this question was put to the Scotland  team: Q8 (from Stephen Gore) In which apparently unproductive source … Continue reading →

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Waugh in the LARB

Posted on November 28, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The Los Angeles Review of Books contains references to Waugh in two of this months’ issues. The first is in a review of a book entitled Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, by David Ulin, a transplanted New Yorker, … Continue reading →

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Waugh on Party Dresses

Posted on November 28, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The Daily Telegraph has run an article by its Fashion Features Director containing advice on the choice of the appropriate party dress for various occasions during the upcoming holiday season. One bit of guidance offered is that by Evelyn Waugh: ‘Her clothes … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s Neoligisms

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Novelist and critic D.J. Taylor contributed a column on neologisms to the Independent newspaper earlier this month. This was inspired by the release of the Collins dictionary’s latest list of the top new words for this year.  These included “Corbynomics”, “dadbod” … Continue reading →

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Carly Simon, Brideshead Fan

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The Daily Mail has published a review of the memoirs of singer-songwriter Carly Simon, Boys in the Trees. The article, by Tom Leonard, mentions how her life was affected by the 1980s Granada TV adaptation of Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited: … Continue reading →

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Sword of Honour Study in Sewanee Review

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The U.S. based academic literary journal Sewanee Review (v. 123, No. 4, Fall 2015) has published an essay by Robert G. Walker entitled “The Rough-Hewn Patterns of Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honor.” Although no abstract is available, some introductory material is reproduced. It begins with … Continue reading →

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Waugh and George Steer

Posted on November 22, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

In a story about the upcoming release of a major English language film production entitled Gernika (Basque for Guernica), the Cape Argus (a South African newspaper) recalls Evelyn Waugh’s assessment of a fellow journalist in the Abyssinian War, George Steer. … Continue reading →

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