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Category Archives: The Loved One
Folio Society Profiles Waugh Illustrators
On its website, the Folio Society has profiled the illustrators of four Waugh novels. These are newly issued or reissued in special Folio Society editions and are all currently available for sale through links in the article: Vile Bodies is … Continue reading
Martin Stannard Lecture at Durham University Next Month (More)
Durham University has posted more details about Martin Stannard’s lecture next month. The topic is Waugh’s visits to the USA in the late 1940s. Here’s a description from the Durham University website: About the lecture By 1947, the year of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Events, Lectures, The Loved One
Tagged Durham University, Martin Stannard, Ushaw Lecture Series
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Russell Baker 1925-2019
Russell Baker, one of America’s leading journalists in the last half of the 20th Century, has died at the age of 93. He was best known as a reporter and columnist for the New York Times. But he got his … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Interviews, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged baltimore, Russell Baker
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Roundup: Daleks and Poputchiks
–The BBC has announced plans to issue a print version of a 1980s Dr Who episode that contains a plot line inspired by Waugh’s novel The Loved One. This is explained on a website that tracks this sort of thing (BleedingCool.com) … Continue reading
Boxing Day Roundup
–The Guardian in its “Top Tens” books column this week features “books on booze”. The selection by Henry Jeffreys is explained as “not a collection of books about drunkenness or alcoholism, though both feature. Rather, it is a celebration of those … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged BBC, Guardian, Lapham's Quarterly
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A Tale of Two Adaptations
The popular culture criticism website PopMatters.com has reposted a 2006 review of the 1965 film adaptation of Waugh’s novel The Loved One. This review by Bill Gibon focuses more on the director Tony Richardson’s version than on Waugh’s story. He … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Film, Television, The Loved One
Tagged ArchitectureAU.com, BBC, PopMatters.com, Tony Richardson
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Post-Election Roundup
Having recovered from the news deluge of the USA midterm elections, we can now return to coverage of matters Wavian: –The big story in British journalism earlier this week was Paul Dacre’s valedictory address as editor of the Daily Mail, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Letters, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Daily Herald (Chicago), Daily Mail, History Today, Image, kedgeree, Paul Dacre, Radio Spada
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Mid-October Roundup
–The US cable channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has announced two broadcasts of The Loved One in November and December. They have also published what look like they may be expanded program notes (by Jeff Stafford) for the occasion: In … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Daily Mail, Guyana Times International, longreads.com, Room of Joy, The Scotsman, The Times, Turner Classic Movies
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Waugh and Death
In a recent issue of The American Scholar, an article by Sudip Bose notes a connection between Evelyn Waugh and Igor Stravinsky’s Requiem Canticles. This was a late compositon that was played at Stravinsky’s own 1971 funeral in Venice. He … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged Crisis magazine, Igor Stravinsky, Mail on Sunday, Peter Hitchens, The American Scholar
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