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Category Archives: Scoop
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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Waugh and Proust: A Handful de Chez Quoi ?
A brief letter in this week’s TLS raises several interesting points about Waugh’s understanding of Marcel Proust’s A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. This is from Dorothy McMillan at the University of Glasgow: Sir, – As your correspondents have shown … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Dorothy MacMillan, Marcel Proust, Tatler Lady Kinvara Balfour, The Hill, TLS
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Roundup: From All Over
A story in a recent edition of The Print, a New Delhi-based digital newspaper specializing in political reporting, likens the journalistic coverage of the recent Russian hacking scandal to the war coverage described in Evelyn Waugh’s novel Scoop. The story … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Independent (Ireland), The National (Abu Dhabi), The Print (India), The Week
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John Julius Norwich (1929-2018)
John Julius Norwich died earlier this week at his home in London at the age of 88. He was the only child of Evelyn Waugh’s close friend and correspondent, Diana Cooper, and her husband Duff, with whom Waugh was not … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Diana Cooper, John Julius Norwich, The Times
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Updates: Brideshead Tonite
The Daily Telegraph offers this rather downbeat description in its TV schedules of the 2008 Brideshead Revisited film adaptation: In the light of the 1981 TV version of Evelyn Waugh’s novel, you do have to admire the chutzpah of anyone else giving … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged BBC, Daily Telegraph, El Pais, The Oldie
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Scoop X 3
BBC News opens a report on whether there will be a second independence referendum in Scotland with a reference to Waugh’s novel Scoop. The report is filed by the BBC’s Scotland political editor Brian Taylor: So is that it, then? … Continue reading
Posted in Scoop, Television
Tagged BBC, Mark Adams, Powells Books, Scotland, Stylist.co.uk
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Waugh Novels in a New “Trilogy”
In a paper posted on the website culturedvultures.com (described as “a community dedicated to helping writers of all experiences and backgrounds to have their work seen and read”), Huw Saunders proposes a new “trilogy” of books about Africa. Two of the books … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
Tagged Africa, Frederick Forsyth, Huw Saunders, The Dogs of War
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