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Category Archives: Put Out More Flags
Roundup: From Australia to Europe via Mexico
–A recent issue of The Australian has an essay by Paul Monk entitled “Western Civilisation: A primer for willing readers.” This includes a broad consideration of liberal arts educational experiences over the years. Among those discussed are the Oxford years … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford, Put Out More Flags, Remote People, Robbery Under Law
Tagged Alex Murray, Edward Gibbon, FiveBooks, Junge Welt, Project MUSE, The Australian, TLS
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Weekend Roundup: Brideshead Re-edited
Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited dominates this week’s roundup: –Scottish novelist and journalist Allan Massie has written an article in the Catholic Herald entitled “Chapter & Verse: Brideshead re-edited”. The article begins: Brideshead Revisited, published in 1945, was Evelyn Waugh’s first … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Sword of Honour, Television Programs, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Allan Massie, Anglotopia, BBC Countryfile Live, Catholic Herald, Clothes in Books, Counter Currents Publishing, Flyte, Hot Press, Humanities
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Take in One Flag, Put Out More
A political dispute in Kansas inspired a reader of the Lawrence Journal-World to submit this letter citing Evelyn Waugh: The governor’s response to the flag controversy — to put more flags on display around the Statehouse in Topeka — brings … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Kansas, Lawrence Journal-World
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Early Summer Roundup: Promotions and Lists
Hertford College, Oxford, has prepared a gallery of its illustrious alumni for use on its promotional website. Waugh is the youngest of the 12 Old Hertfordians included. The unattributed entry is a well-presented summary of his writing career. It begins … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Vile Bodies
Tagged Catch-22, Conde Nast Traveller, David Bowie/Alladin Sane, Heatherley School of Fine Art, Hertford College, Literary Hub, Marseille, National Catholic Register
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Put Out More Flags Reconsidered
John Rossi, Professor of History at La Salle University cites Put Out More Flags as underrated, while nevertheless being considered by some as the best novel of WWII. This is in the latest issue of the American Conservative Magazine. Rossi … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, World War II
Tagged John Rossi, The American Conservative, Weekly Standard
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Brexit, Flags and Travesties
Patrick Kidd in today’s issue of The Times devotes his “Political Sketch” column to the Commonwealth Conference convened this week in London. He opens and closes with references to an Evelyn Waugh novel: Put out more flags. Evelyn Waugh took … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, London, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop
Tagged Brexit, Commonwealth, Cynthia Zarin, Justin Trudeau, Patrick Kidd, The New Yorker, The Times, Tom Stoppard
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Weekend Roundup: Waugh in the Book Reviews
The Daily Telegraph reviews a book by Julie Summers entitled Our Uninvited Guests about the wartime use of British country houses to shelter evacuated refugees from the bombed out cities or provide military bases. The review is by Robert Leigh-Pemberton … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Helena, Letters, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, World War II
Tagged America, Bob Dylan, Daily Telegraph, Margaret Millar, Mark Twain, Ross McDonald, Thomas Merton, Wall Street Journal
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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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