Category Archives: Scoop

The Bolthole and the Beast

Posted on July 29, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Both the Financial Times and the Guardian have stories this weekend based on Waugh’s writngs. They are also mentioned prominently in two Australian papers. Writing in the FT, Janan Ganesh sees what may be the passing of the middle class longing … Continue reading →

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Maggs Bros Exhibit Opens Today

Posted on July 18, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

There are additional notices regarding the Maggs Bros. booksellers exhibit of Waugh’s graphic artwork. See previous posts. These appear on the Spectator Life and artdaily.org websites. The Spectator Life article also has several reproductions. The exhibit opens today, 18 July and runs through Friday, … Continue reading →

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“Scoop-like” Novel Boosted

Posted on July 15, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

In Peter Wilby’s New Stateman column, the new novel Splash! by Stephen Glover often likened to Waugh’s Scoop has been given another boost. As explained by Wilby, Scoop: … drew on Waugh’s experience of covering Mussolini’s invasion of Abyssinia (as it … Continue reading →

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Retour à l’europe moderne

Posted on June 25, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Waugh’s French publisher Robert Laffont has issued a new printing of the French translation of Brideshead Revisited (Retour à Brideshead). This is a paperback as was the previous version but has a new cover with new dimensions and pagination in … Continue reading →

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Waugh and Brit Grift

Posted on June 23, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The online newspaper The Daily Beast (which owes its name to a fictional newspaper in Scoop) recently ran a story by James Kirchick entitled “The Brit Grifters and the Designated American Suckers.” This suggests a history of British residents whose careers have hit a wall in their … Continue reading →

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Waugh in Albania

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Literary journalist and author David Pryce-Jones has written a “Letter from Albania: The Twilight of Zog” that appears in the current issue of The New Criterion. He reports on his attendance at a conference about the legacy of Communism in Albania … Continue reading →

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Trump, Harry Potter, and Waugh

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Sonny Bunch writing in the Washington Post has noticed that opponents of Donald Trump seem to have become fixated on the literary world created by the Harry Potter novels. After Trump’s election: the Potternistas gnashed their teeth and rent their garments, … Continue reading →

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General Election, Water Voles, and Nothing

Posted on May 29, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A local news website in Kent has introduced Evelyn Waugh as an issue in the ongoing UK General Election. Kent Online has compiled a list of candidates for the seat in the Folkestone and Hythe constituency, with a thumbnail sketch provided … Continue reading →

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Scoop and the Montana Election

Posted on May 27, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The internet newsite Rare.us has issued a story about the physical persecution of a British reporter in the recent Montana special Congressional election. This is entitled: “The lesson of Greg Gianforte: Bashing journalists, even literally, isn’t much of a liability.” The Republican candidate … Continue reading →

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Waugh and the Friedman Unit

Posted on May 21, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

On a blog specializing in stories about the Iraq War, blogger Alexander Harrowell describes what is known to those write about such things as the “Friedman Unit”: Those of us who blogged through the Iraq War will of course remember the Friedman … Continue reading →

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