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Category Archives: Sword of Honour
Weekly Standard Remembers Waugh
The latest issue of Weekly Standard carries an article memorializing Waugh in this 50th anniversary year of his death. This is by Algis Valiunas who is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The essay begins with the familiar characterization … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Algis Valiunas, Weekly Standard
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Scoop Rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 Extra earlier this week rebroadcast a two-hour adaptation of Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop. This was written by Jeremy Front who has also adapted for radio Decline and Fall (2016), Sword of Honour (2013) and Brideshead Revisited (2003). The Scoop dramatization was first … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Radio, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Front
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David Pryce-Jones Reviews Eade Biography (Updated)
David Pryce-Jones, son of author Alan Pryce-Jones who was Waugh’s near contemporary at Oxford but not close friend, has reviewed Philip Eade’s biography of Waugh in the National Review. He begins with an apology for having written an unfavorable review … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Oxford, Sword of Honour, Waugh Family
Tagged David Pryce-Jones, National Review, Philip Eade
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Goodbye to More of All That
In the Guardian’s ongoing series of the “100 Best Nonfiction Books,” its latest selection is Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves’ memoir of his WWI experiences and early life. The Guardian describes the book’s depiction of the war as an: irreverent, comic, and … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Best 100 Nonfiction Books, Guardian, Robert Graves, Robert McCrum
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Judge Turns Novelist, Citing Waugh
The Nottingham Post reports the story of a retiring judge who has published a novel. This is entitled Blackmail, which is about a robbery by a group of professional criminals, and is written by former judge of the Nottingham Crown Court, … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television Programs
Tagged Michael Stokes, Nottingham Post
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Telegraph Compares New Zadie Smith Novel to Brideshead
In a Daily Telegraph review of Zadie Smith’s new novel Swing Time, the reviewer James Walton compares it with Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. The novel involves a narrator and a friend who who live in different social strata of the same … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Swing Time, Zadie Smith
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Waugh Biography Reviewed in the US Press
Reviews have appeared in two US newspapers of the new biography of Evelyn Waugh by Philip Eade, published earlier this month in the US. In the Wall Street Journal, the book is reviewed by British novelist and journalist Allan Massie. (If … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Allan Massie, Micah Mattix, Philip Eade, Wall Street Journal, Washington Free Beacon
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Oxford Hostelries Commemorate Waugh
According to a recent posting on travel blog Trip Advisor, there is a hotel bedroom named for Evelyn Waugh at the Head of the River. This is a pub and hotel located on St Aldate’s at Folly Bridge in Oxford. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Oxford, Sightings, Sword of Honour
Tagged Anthony Burgess, Eynsham Hall, Head of the River, Paul Doyle, Weblogs
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BBC Rebroadcasts Brideshead Radio Adaptation
BBC Radio 4 Extra will rebroadcast the 4-episode series of Brideshead Revisited starting tomorrow (Tuesday, 4 October) at 10am. Each episode is 1 hour, and they will be broadcast on successive days at the same time each day until the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Radio, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour
Tagged BBC Radio 4 Extra, Jeremy Front
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Waugh in the Blogosphere
Several bloggers, especially those with a religious theme, make fairly regular mentions of Waugh and his works. Yesterday, a blogger who specializes in Eastern Christianity posted a review of Waugh’s novel Helena on the day that the Church commemorates the Invention … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Catholicism, Helena, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged G.K. Chesterton, Weblogs
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