Category Archives: Sword of Honour

Dramatist of WWII Yugoslavia Profiled

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The Islington Tribune has published a profile of playwright James Hugh Macdonald. He has written a play called Happy Warriors based on the experience of Evelyn Waugh and Randolph Churchill in wartime Yugoslavia. (See previous posts.): James Hugh Macdonald, a … Continue reading →

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Two Hits and Two Misses

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The staff at The American Conservative magazine are asked to contribute to a regular column called “TAC Bookshelf” describing and rating their current reading. Andrew J Bacevich devoted his latest contribution to Evelyn Waugh. He considered Sword of Honour a … Continue reading →

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Waugh Features in Podcast on “Narrative and Religion”

Posted on January 18, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

A recent podcast in the series Conversations with Tyler involves an interview with New York Times columnist Russ Douthat. The series is sponsored by George Mason University  and the interviewer is Tyler Cowen but the date and the venue are … Continue reading →

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Wavian Roundup

Posted on December 18, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

—The Guardian reviews the new book by Nicholas Shakespeare, who wrote and directed the BBC’s 1980’s Arena TV documentary series known as The Waugh Trilogy. The book is entitled Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister and … Continue reading →

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Joan Didion Reviews Sword of Honour

Posted on November 17, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

In an article posted on the website Acculturated, Nic Rowan discusses novelist and essayist Joan Didion’s early career of reviewing books for the National Review in the 1960s. Rowan claims that her later career cannot be fully understood without considering … Continue reading →

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The Waughs and the Leigh Fermors

Posted on October 17, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Two recent books about Patrick Leigh Fermor (Paddy) and his wife Joan include material about their interactions with Evelyn Waugh, his wife Laura, and their mutual friends: The first is Joan: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor by Simon Fenwick. Evelyn … Continue reading →

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Anthony Powell Biography to Appear Next Week

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Hilary Spurling, who has written a new and much awaited biography of Anthony Powell, has served up an appetizer in an article published in the Times. She starts with a survey of the major 20th century writers who admired Powell’s … Continue reading →

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Waugh Saga

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Novelist Lars Walker has posted a review of Sword of Honour on internet book site Brandywine Books . Walker has written several novels in what looks like it would be called the Norse warrior saga genre and so has an … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s Twofer in First Things

Posted on September 13, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

There are two articles on Waugh in the recent print and digital editions of First Things, a nondenominational religious journal. The first is a long essay on Waugh’s work and religion by Paul V Mankowski, SJ that is combined with a … Continue reading →

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Danish Journal Publishes Waugh Article

Posted on September 6, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Danish cultural journal Critique has published for the first time the full version of an essay on Waugh’s life and work written in 2009. This is entitled “Evelyn Waughs korstog mod moderniteten” (“Evelyn Waugh’s Crusade Against Modernity”) and is summarized … Continue reading →

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