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Category Archives: Sword of Honour
Michaelmas Roundup
–Several religious journals carry a story by George Weigel about the elimination of the Papal States in the 19th century as part of Italy’s reunification. The article, as published in the interfaith journal First Things, opens with this: Evelyn Waugh’s … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Oxford, Put Out More Flags, Sword of Honour
Tagged Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, First Things, Sevenoaks Chamber of Commerce, The Spectator
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Nicholas Shakespeare Interviewed on ABC
The Australian network ABC has posted a podcast of its literary program The Bookshelf that Made Me. This is intended to go beyond the constraints of its broadcast version, and its first guest is Nicholas Shakespeare. He is best known … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Interviews, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour
Tagged Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Kate Evans, Nicholas Skakespeare, The Books That Made Me
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Bastille Day Roundup
—The Australian newspaper’s “Media Watch Dog” column cites its previous mention of Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop where the snobbery of the leftie journalist Pappenhacker was revealed. Waugh’s line was that a wealthy communist university-educated chap named Pappenhacker believed that the best … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Waugh Family, World War II
Tagged First Things, Greg Sheridan, Institite of Public Affairs, Peter Hitchens, Stinchcombe Parish Council, The Australian, The Oldie
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Roundup: Protests and Summer
–The “Rhodes Must Fall” debate has been revived in Oxford in the context of the Black Lives Matter protests. See previous post. In the Daily Mail, a comment on the matter by Evelyn Waugh is brought to bear: Oxford will … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Daily Mail, National Review, Prospect, RTV Slovenia, Wall Street Journal
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Waugh Transformed
Simon Heffer in the Daily Telegraph has written an article entitled “How the Second World War transformed British literature”. The subject is a good bit more narrow than the title suggests. In fact, he considers primarily how WWII transformed the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Graham Greene, Simon Heffer
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Not Wanted: Coronavirus Novels (At Least, Not Yet)
In the latest issue of Literary Review, literary critic and novelist D J Taylor has an article entitled “Why I Won’t Be Writing a Coronavirus Novel”. This begins with his fears that some half baked ideas may already be forming … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Sword of Honour, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Coronavirus Novels, D.J.Taylor, Literary Review
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Waugh in “Angloliguria”
Massimo Bacigalupo, author of the 2017 book in Italian Angloliguria: From Byron to Hemingway, has written an article in the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto about a “virtual trip” to three villas in Portofino during this time of lockdown. One of the spots … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Highclere Castle, Il Manifesto, Italy, Town & Country, Villa Altachiara
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Slightly Foxed Podcast Posted: “The Ordeal of Evelyn Waugh”
The podcast produced by Slightly Foxed magazine mentioned in a previous post has now been posted. Here’s the link. Alexander Waugh and Selina Hastings are the guest panelists. A summary and cites to mentions of several works by and about … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Discussions, Evelyn Waugh, Put Out More Flags, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Selina Hastings, Slightly Foxed
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Easter Roundup: Reading Waugh in a Time of Self-Isolation
–An article in National Review relates mainly to Alessandro Manzoni’s 1840 novel in Italian The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi). This is by M D Aeschliman who explains the popularity of the 700 page work among his University of Virginia students … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Audiobooks, Brideshead Revisited, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Sword of Honour
Tagged Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, National Review, The Independent, The Spectator, ThePublicDiscourse.com
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Sword of Honour Re-examined
The current issue of the literary magazine Raritan Quarterly (Winter 2020, v. 39, #3) includes an article by Andrew J Bacevich about Waugh’s war trilogy. This is entitled “My Guy”, giving some indication that Bacevich finds himself in agreement with … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Andrew J Bacevich, Raritan Quarterly
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