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Category Archives: Fiction
Dramatist of WWII Yugoslavia Profiled
The Islington Tribune has published a profile of playwright James Hugh Macdonald. He has written a play called Happy Warriors based on the experience of Evelyn Waugh and Randolph Churchill in wartime Yugoslavia. (See previous posts.): James Hugh Macdonald, a … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Theater, World War II
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Islington Tribune, James Hugh Macdonald, Maurice Bowra, Plum Sykes
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Roundup: Six Novelists, Two of them Waughs
Maclean’s magazine has published an interview of Tom Rachman on the occsaion of the publication of a new novel, his third. This is entitled The Italian Teacher: “about an artist trying to find himself in the shadow of his painter … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, A Little Learning, Alec Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Alfred Duggan, Allan Massie, Catholic Herald, D.J.Taylor, Maclean's, Powells Books, TLS, Tom Rachman, VisitBritain.com
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Evelyn Waugh on BBC’s “Evil Genius” Podcast
BBC has posted the episode of comedian Russell Kane’s “Evil Genius” podcast series that features a consideration of Evelyn Waugh. The idea is to have a panel decide whether each episode’s subject was more evil or more genius. Previous episodes … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Discussions, Evelyn Waugh, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC Podcasts, Russell Kane
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Julia’s Meltdown and Church Unity
In the latest issue of the Roman Catholic journal Commonweal, there is a review of a book called To Change the Church by Ross Douthat, the conservative commentator on the New York Times. The review is entitled “A Precarious Unity?” and … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Commonweal, divorce, Paul Baumann, Ross Douthat
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Waughs: Comedy and Fitness
An article has been posted entitled “Evelyn Waugh’s Comic Muse in Scoop”. This is by Dr Robert Hickson and is available on the weblog Catholicism.org. The article opens with the posting of Waugh’s introduction to the 1963 edition of Scoop … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh Family
Tagged catholicism.org, Daily Mail, Daisy Waugh, Dr. Robert Hickson, fitness
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Brideshead: Crime Story, Aesthetes and a Scientist
The second season of the TV series American Crime Story is nearing its end on the FX cable channel in the USA. It has just begun on BBC and has reached Episode 3 this week. It is entitled the Assassination … Continue reading
Hard Cases: Drugs and Reality
The Spanish magazine Historia y Vida based in Barcelona has an article this month about Brenda Dean Paul. She was a member of the bright young people, and the story by Eva Melús connects her with Waugh’s novels of the … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Brenda Dean Paul, Catholic World Report, Historia y Vida, Madeleine L'Engle
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A Diary, a Legacy, and a First Edition
The long-running “Londoner’s Diary” column of the Evening Standard has been relaunched as “The Londoner” and has a new author, Charlotte Edwardes, who writes her introductory article with a nod to Evelyn Waugh and several of his friends: On my … Continue reading
Waugh Criminal
A new book about criminality in WWII (Merlin at War) has been written by Mark Ellis and is discussed on Historyextra.com (official website of the BBC History Magazine). The article opens with this: The Second World War was a golden … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, World War II
Tagged HistoryExtra.com, Independent (London), Racing Post, Ralph Hoare, Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Weekend Roundup: Brideshead in the News
Alan Hollinghurst’s latest novel The Sparsholt Affair is being released in the USA next week and is reviewed in the Boston Globe. The Globe’s reviewer, Priscilla Gilman, as with several in the UK, notes the book’s conections with Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited: … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop, Television, The Loved One
Tagged Alan Hollinghurst, BBC, Boston Globe, CBC, Meg Wolitzer, MSN, The Atlantic, The Guardian
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