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Category Archives: Put Out More Flags
Mother’s Day Roundup
–Nicholas Lezard writing in the New Statesman calls on Basil Seal to explain why asparagus (now coming into season in northerly climates) is the most sexy vegetable: … like all things sexy, it trembles on the edge of exploitation. In … Continue reading
Academia x 2: Pinfold’s Voices and Waugh’s Propaganda
–A recent academic article about Waugh’s postwar novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold has been posted on the internet. This is entitled “Hearing Voices: The Extended Mind in Evelyn Waugh’s The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold” and is by Yuexi Liu, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Put Out More Flags, Sword of Honour, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Guy Woodward, Modernist Cultures, The Review of English Studies, Yuexi Liu
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Academic Roundup: 2020-2021
The following articles and reviews have appeared in academic journals for the period 2020-21 (2019 in one case) and have not been previously posted. The summaries of articles come (except as noted) from an academic library search service and those … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Articles, Decline and Fall, Put Out More Flags, Vile Bodies
Tagged Naomi Milthorpe
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Roundup: Public Schools, Pronunciation and Epigraphs
–The Daily Telegraph has an essay by Rupert Christiansen reviewing the English obsession with Public Schools. This begins with a consideration of several novels, films and stage plays that center on the miserable lives suffered by both students and teachers … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Interviews, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Guardian, New Statesman, Rev Sydney Smith, The Literary Hub
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Spring Equinox Roundup
–A new book about Evelyn Waugh’s friend Randolph Churchill has been published. This is entitled Churchill and Son and is written by Josh Ireland. It apparently deals mainly with Randolph’s rocky relationship with his father but may touch on his … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, World War II
Tagged Chagford, Daily Mail, Jessica Fellowes, Kings River Life, Randolph Churchill, The Times, TLS
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Michaelmas Roundup
–Several religious journals carry a story by George Weigel about the elimination of the Papal States in the 19th century as part of Italy’s reunification. The article, as published in the interfaith journal First Things, opens with this: Evelyn Waugh’s … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Oxford, Put Out More Flags, Sword of Honour
Tagged Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, First Things, Sevenoaks Chamber of Commerce, The Spectator
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Evelyn’s Last Dance
Duncan McLaren has posted two articles in his Brideshead Festival series in which Evelyn Waugh ponders the contents of the last two volumes of Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time. These are Temporary Kings (1973) and Hearing Secret … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Festivals, Humo(u)r, Men at Arms, Put Out More Flags, Scott-King's Modern Europe
Tagged Anthony Powell, Dance to the Music of Time, Duncan McLaren
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Labor Day Roundup
–Sebastian Payne writing in the Financial Times describes a non-boring dinner party of his own contrivance. The venue will be Riley’s Fish Shack at Tynemouth on the northeast coast of England and the chef will be Adam Riley, apparently owner … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Lectures, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Durham University, Financial Times, Irish Times, Oxford University Press, The Tablet
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Dog Days Roundup: 18 August 2020
–Writing in a recent issue of the Daily Telegraph, literary journalist Jane Shilling bemoans the early reaction of the publishing industry to the coronavirus lockdown. In a period when reading and cooking were two of the activities the “lockdownees” could … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Country Life, Daily Telegraph, Errol Flynn, Forest Lawn, Observer, Russell Shaw, Tom Paxton
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Waugh’s Politics in Fiction and Real Life
Writer and historian Minoo Dinshaw, author of the recently published biography of Steven Runciman, has written an article for Catholic Herald which traces Waugh’s political views through the characters in his novels. It is entitled “Forewaughned” and begins with this: … Continue reading
Posted in Basil Seal Rides Again, Black Mischief, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Catholic Herald, Minoo Dinshaw
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