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Category Archives: Fiction
A Tale of Two Anthonys
The current issue of the London Review of Books has an essay by Prof Perry Anderson on Anthony Powell. This considers the recent biography of Powell by Hilary Spurling and morphs into a longer critical consideration of Powell’s works. It is … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Black Mischief, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged America, Anthony Burgess, Anthony Powell, Christopher Sandford, Hilary Spurling, London Review of Books, Prof Perry Anderson
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Waugh and Brexit (more)
Waugh gets several mentions in the weeklies in connection with the Brexit debate. Two of these relate to Tory politician Jacob Rees-Mogg, a leading proponent of Brexit. These are based on Dominic Green’s interview of Rees-Mogg for The Weekly Standard on … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Robbery Under Law, Scoop
Tagged Dominic Green, Roger Kimball, The Spectator, The Weekly Standard
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Vile Parties
The website Londonist has published an artcle on “6 Debauched Parties We Wish We’d Been Invited To”. These are all from the Bright Young People days that were described in Waugh’s novel Vile Bodies. There is one which involved Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Bruno Hat, Londonist
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Unsung Waughs
A posting by Ralph Berry on the weblog of the “paleoconservative” journal Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture cites one of Waugh’s least read novels: I was lately in Exeter, hoping to see something of the Islamic Centre at the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Black Mischief, Complete Works, Film, Helena, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, Harry Ransom Center, Sara Haslam, Tab Hunter, The Guardian
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Waugh and Religious Satire
Prof Terry Lindvall of Virginia Wesleyan University has written a book entitled God Mocks: A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert. In his broad survey, he gives some time to a brief consideration of the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Love Among The Ruins, Ronald Knox
Tagged Religious Satire, Terry Lindvall
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Waugh and Modernism: Picasso
Duncan McLaren has now added the second part of his posting relating to Waugh and Modernism. The first was posted several days ago and related to Waugh and Gertrude Stein. The new one deals with Waugh and Pablo Picasso. This … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Events, Letters
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Picasso, V&A Museum
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Exploding Scotland
In a post on the website Catholicism.org, Dr Robert Hickson offers another in his series of annotated Evelyn Waugh passages. In this case he posts a copy of Waugh’s 1942 letter to his wife about the demolition of Lord Glasgow’s … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Humo(u)r, Letters, Officers and Gentlemen, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged catholicism.org, Dr. Robert Hickson, Scotland
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A Cold Reception
The Spanish digital newspaper Diario Informacion, based in Alicante, has published a recent opinion article entitled “Football and Politics.” This is written by Andrés Castaño. The opening paragraph deals with Politics and starts with a reference to a Waugh novel: … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen
Tagged Alicante, Andrés Castaño, Catalonia, Diario Informacion, Quim Torra
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