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Category Archives: Fiction
Evelyn Waugh, Brexiteer?
In an article in the “pro-market” website Reaction, Alastair Benn considers why more artists do not support Britain’s exit from the EU. When he reviews where today’s writers come out on this subject, Evelyn Waugh’s name comes up: Although it might … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Newspapers, Scoop, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Brexit, Jimmy Page, John Betjeman, New York Review of Books, Reaction.life, The Times
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Weekend Roundup: French Connections
In a Times review of Nina Caplan’s new book The Wandering Vine: Wine, the Romans and Me, reviewer Michael Henderson includes this as his opening: “O for a beaker full of the warm south!” Keats, who died in Rome, gave … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Documentaries, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Television Programs, The Loved One, World War II
Tagged Channel 4, Cyril Connolly, Financial Times, France, Maclean's Magazine, Sonia Orwell, The Times, Winston Churchill
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Henry Green, Enthusiasms, Tammy Faye, and Clarissa
The attempted revival of Henry Green’s works and reputation marches ever onward. The latest contribution is an article by Dominic Green (no likely relationship since Henry’s family name was Yorke) in the New Criterion. Green makes the case that Yorke … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Catholicism, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers, Ronald Knox, Scoop
Tagged Clarissa Churchill, Daily Telegraph, Dominic Green, Henry Green, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, New Criterion, Spear's magazine, Weekly Standard
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Waugh as Biographer, Up to a Point
In this week’s Spectator, the lead book review (“Biography is a thoroughly reprehensible genre”) is by Roger Lewis. In this, he describes a book by James Atlas entitled The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer’s Tale. Atlas is a literary … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Biographies, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop
Tagged Christopher Fletcher, Financial Times, James Atlas, Karen Walker, Roger Lewis, Simon Kuper, Spectator, Vogue
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Greatest Writer of “Our” Generation ?
Literary critic, novelist and publisher Dr Stoddard Martin has written a review of Philip Eade’s biography which he turns into an assessment of Evelyn Waugh’s career and legacy. This is entitled “Class Act” and appears in The Quarterly Review, an … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Auberon Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
Tagged Graham Greene, Philip Eade, Somerset Maugham, Stoddard Martin, The Quarterly Review
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Roundup: From Seven Deadly Sins to Four Brandy Alexanders
–The Spanish newspaper El Mundo has a story about the career of novelist Ian Fleming, best known for his James Bond novels and films. This begins with a discussion of Fleming’s less well-known role as International Editor of The Sunday … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Men at Arms, Newspapers
Tagged Alan Hollinghurst, Belfast Telegraph, Daily Mail, Dan Hannan, El Mundo, Ian Fleming, Jalta.nl, Letters Live, New York Times, Quartzy, Stephen Fry, Washington Examiner
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Naim Attallah Interviews Harold Acton
Writer and publisher Naim Attallah has posted on his weblog what looks like the complete text of his interview of Harold Acton in 1990. This was only a few years before Acton’s death in 1994. Acton and Waugh were friends … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews
Tagged Harold Acton, Naim Attallah, Quartet Books
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Private Chapels (More)
In a recent post we mentioned a newly built Roman Catholic private chapel at Culham Court near Henley in which regular services are held. The Catholic Herald has an article this week by Sarah Crofts about several more such private … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Catholic Herald, Milton Manor Chapel, Private Chapels, Stonor Chapel, Traditional Latin Mass
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Vile Bodies: Two Wins and a Loss
Esquire magazine has published a list of what it considers the “24 Funniest Books Ever Written” as compiled by Will Hersey. At number 6 is Waugh’s Vile Bodies (1930): …Evelyn Waugh brilliantly, hilariously, unflinchingly but always humanely pinions a society … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Alex Clark, Esquire, Guardian, Peter O'Toole, TheWrap.com, Will Hersey
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Ethiopia Explicated: Waugh and Wakanda
In an article posted on the news website Taki’s Magazine, journalist and blogger Steve Sailer offers what seems a good summary history of Ethiopia. Perhaps central to his explanation of why an ancient Christian civilization and monarchy survived in the … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Remote People, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia, When the Going Was Good
Tagged "Wakanda", Adam Nebbs, Counter-Currents.com, Ethiopia, James J O'Meara, South China Morning Post, Steve Sailer, Taki's Magazine
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