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Category Archives: Sword of Honour
Helena and Crete
The Tablet has published an article relating to correspondence that arose in response to a mention of Waugh’s novel Helena in a 1951 book review in that paper. The review by Fr Gerard Meath related to Dorothy Sayer’s book The Emperor Constantine. This is explained in an … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Helena, Letters, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged The Tablet, Washington Times
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Waugh in Reviews
The Prufrock column in this week’s Weekly Standard magazine contains this reference to the new book Ronald Knox: A Man for All Seasons, with a link to a review of the book: The Catholic priest Ronald Knox made a deep … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Catholicism, Newspapers, Ronald Knox, Sword of Honour
Tagged Ben Judah, Financial Times, Greg Morrison, London Review of Books, Rosemary Hill, Sreven Runciman, University Bookman, Weekly Standard
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Guardian Includes The Loved One in Top 10 Hollywood Novels
The Guardian in this week’s “Top 10” books column considers books about Hollywood. Evelyn Waugh’s 1948 novella The Loved One is among those selected by Tim Walker who has himself just finished his own contribution to the genre (Smoke Over Malibu). … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Miscellaneous, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged Greg Sheridan, Guardian, The Australian, Tim Weeks
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Hat Trick for Waugh in The Spectator
This week’s Spectator features three articles mentioning Evelyn Waugh. The first is in a memorial for Tara Palmer-Tomkinson who died this week at the age of 45. The magazine reprints an article she wrote which appeared in the 27 July … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged Cosmo Landesman, Independent (Ireland), Kirsty Blake Knox, Ludovic Kennedy, Nicholas Shakespeare, Tara Parker-Tomkinson, The Spectator
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NYRB Reviews Eade Biography
The current issue of the New York Review of Books has a review of Philip Eade’s biography of Evelyn Waugh. This is by John Banville and is entitled “The Strange Genius of the Master.” Banville also named Eade’s book as … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Garry Wills, John Banville, NYRB, Philip Eade, Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
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William H Pritchard Reviews New Waugh Books
Noted US literary critic William H Pritchard has reviewed the two new books about Evelyn Waugh by Philip Eade and Ann Pasternak Slater. The article entitled “Evelyn Waugh Revisited” is published in the current issue of The Hudson Review. Prof Pritchard has … Continue reading
Waughblogs
Several bloggers have commented on or recommended the works of Evelyn Waugh in the past week. In Antick Musings, Andrew Wheeler recommends Waugh’s first novel Decline and Fall which he recently read for a second time: Decline and Fall focuses intensely … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Sword of Honour
Tagged Aleteia, Antick Musings, Catholic Thing, Sheed & Ward
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Waugh’s Scarf
The Croatian newspaper Jutarnji Vijesti (Morning News) published in Zagreb has a longish article about Waugh’s career in Yugoslavia in WWII and his connections with that country afterwards. The story opens with a description of a silk scarf on display in Rijeka. This … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged aviator scarf, Croatia, Jutarnji Vijesti, Yugoslavia
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New German Edition of Sword of Honour Reviewed
A new German edition of Sword of Honour was published earlier this year. This was the same translation as that published originally in 1981 but, according to the December issue of literaturkritik.de, it has been checked (durchgesehen) and, one presumes, updated somewhat. The German title … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged German translation, literaturkritik.de, Sylvia Heudecker
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Biography of Robert Laycock Published
A biography of Robert Laycock, Evelyn Waugh’s commanding officer in WWII, has been published in the UK. This is The Commando General: The Life of Major General Sir Robert Laycock by Richard Mead. The book is featured on a British military website (Army … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Officers and Gentlemen, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Army Rumor Service, Marcellus Cimber II, Robert Laycock
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