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Category Archives: The Loved One
Roundup: Decline in Standards and Increase in Price
—The Times has published a sort of interview with William Boyd on the occasion of the publication of his latest novel, Gabriel’s Moon. Here’s an excerpt: There is no point attempting to whitewash old attitudes. Trying to tidy up the bad … Continue reading
Mid-September Roundup
–A new biography of Claud Cockburn, friend and cousin of Evelyn Waugh has been published. This is entitled Believe in Nothing Until It is Officially Denied and is reviewed on the British political website conservativehome.com. The book by Patrick Cockburn … Continue reading
New York Times Promotes “The Loved One”
Waugh’s 1948 novella The Loved One seems to be getting a lot of press attention nowadays. Earlier this week the new CWEW edition was reviewed in the TLS, and now the book is recommended in the New York Times. This … Continue reading
TLS Reviews The Loved One
Jonathan Keates has reviewed the OUP’s new Collected Works edition of Waugh’s 1948 novel The Loved One. This appears in the current edition of the Times Literary Supplement (16 August 2024). The article is entitled: “Slumber Room, then Paradise: Evelyn … Continue reading
General Election Roundup
—The Oldie has posted an article by A N Wilson commenting on elections with particular reference to the one scheduled for next week in the UK. Here’s an excerpt where he is reminded of Evelyn Waugh’s position on that subject: … Continue reading
Roundup: Schoolmaster Novelists
–Literary biographer Jeffrey Meyers writing in TheArticle.com describes the early 20th Century school teaching careers of four English novelists. Here are the opening paragraphs: Aspiring writers have often tried their hand at teaching. They have usually assumed that it would … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Podcast, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged American Spectator, EvergreenPodcast, Irish Examiner, Jeffrey Meyers, The Article
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75th Anniversary of “American Epoch” Commemorated
Kenneth Craycraft writing in the religious journal Our Sunday Visitor notes that this year is the 75th anniversary of the publication of Waugh’s article in Life Magazine (19 September 1949) entitled “The American Epoch of the Catholic Church.” This followed … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Kenneth Crayvraft, Life Magazine, Our Sunday Visitor
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OUP Announces New Waugh Volume
The Oxford University Press has announced a new volume in its ongoing Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh series. This will be CWEW Volume 10: The Loved One: An Anglo- American Tragedy. Its tentative UK release date is 23 April 2024 … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, The Loved One
Tagged Adrian Poole
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Groundhog Day Roundup
—The American Spectator has posted a story that analogizes an American political phenomenon to an Evelyn Waugh novel. Here are the opening paragraphs of the story entitled “The Heartbreak of the Brideshead Republicans” by Karl Pfefferkorn: If you are a … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Film: The Scarlet Woman, Newspapers, Podcast, The Loved One
Tagged St Edmunds Hall, The American Spectator, The Economist
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Roundup: Letters and A Lecture
—BBC Radio Four Extra has announced the rebroadcast of a 1996 adaptation of Waugh’s novel A Handful of Dust. This will be contained in two one-hour episodes. The first is broadcast on Tuesday, 24 October at 0500 repeated at 1500 … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Auctions, Lectures, Letters, Newspapers, Radio Programs, The Loved One, Translations, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC Radio 4 Extra, New Statesman, University of Oklahoma
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