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Category Archives: Fiction
Roundup: From Clubs to Travels
–The Daily Telegraph reports that one of Waugh’s London clubs has voted to continue to exclude women members: A PRIVATE gentlemen’s club in Mayfair has voted against admitting women for the first time, The Telegraph has learnt. The Savile Club, … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Collections, Love Among The Ruins
Tagged Chaim Potok, Daily Telegraph, Diariojudio.com, Literary Review, Norman Lewis, The New Criterion
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Roundup: Theatrical Torture, Biographical Therapy and Lineage of Comic Novel
–The Italian newspaper La Stampa for 25 January 2025 has an article by the late Gaia Servadio which is based on an interview with Graham Greene that seems to have taken place about 1978 (publication date of The Human Factor … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged Cherwell (newspaper), Graham Greene, La Stampa, New York Times, Prychology Today, Thomistic Institute
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MLK Day Roundup
–The US-based Jesuit journal America has an article in its latest issue describing the differences and similarities of conversions to Roman Catholicism by writers and intellectuals in the US and UK. It opens with the UK example of Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers
Tagged America, Lytham Hall Lancashire, New York Adventure Club, The Washington Free Beacon, William Boyd
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Roundup: Television and Weblogs
–Blogger Andrew Kern has posted on Substack an article praising Waugh’s war novel Men at Arms. Here are the opening paragraphs: Evelyn Waugh wrote better than any dead or living Briton from the 20th century. He tells stories that incorporate … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Interviews, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, House of Guinness, Ma Mayfield, Metro.co.uk, The Guardian
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Roundup: Renewed Interest in Rosemary Tonks
–The London Review of Books reviews the reprints of three of the later novels by poet-novelist Rosemary Tonks. She wrote during the period 1963-1980. After a rather difficult life, she stopped writing in 1980 to become a fundamentalist Christian, dying … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged London Review of Books, Rosemary Tonks, The Guardian, The Spectator, Vanity Fair
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New Year’s Roundup
–Writing in The Spectator, Druin Burch reviews the press coverage of the Lucy Letby case (recently convicted of murdering babies in her care) and recalls the case of an earlier nurse (Benjamin Geen) who was also convicted of murder. The … Continue reading
Posted in Labels, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Angelus, National Review, The Spectator
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Winter Solstice Roundup
–Novelist Robert Harris has recommended the best 5 collections of letters for the Wall Street Journal. Those of Evelyn Waugh are included: Born in London in 1903, Evelyn Waugh was a reactionary whose distaste for the modern world included the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop
Tagged Anglotopia, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Tablet, Wall Street Journal
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Roundup: Euthanasia, Stiff-upper-lips, and Feminism
–American journalist Roger Kimball, writing in The Spectator, offers his views on certain aspects of legislation proposed by the new Labour Government: …What if you are old, sick or just plain inconvenient? Starmer’s government has a plan for you, too. … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers, Oxford, Photographs, Podcast, Vile Bodies
Tagged Catholic World Report, MIT Press, The Spectator, Tyler Cowen
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Advent Roundup
–D J Taylor has written a thoughtful essay on the current status of literary biography. This is posted in The Critic Magazine. Here are the introductory paragraphs: Q. Who, just under a century ago, wrote the following, and about whom? … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Podcast, Rossetti: His Life and Works, World War II
Tagged Andrew Pettegree, BBC, D.J.Taylor, Penguin Books, The Critic
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Thanksgiving Roundup
–The New Statesman has an article about the crime novels of James Lee Burke. This is by Michael Henderson who describes the Louisiana setting of the novels featuring the characters of Dave Robicheaux and Cletus Purcel. Here’s an excerpt with … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Fiction, Newspapers, Podcast, Scoop
Tagged James Lee Burke, New Statesman
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