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Category Archives: The Loved One
Waugh and Huxley
Dr Gillian Dooley, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of English, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, has published a paper entitled “Love, Death and the Satirical Purpose: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One“. This originally appeared in Texture: … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Dr Gillian Dooley
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Roundup: Witchcraft and Victory
–The Daily Telegraph reviews a new history of witchcraft since 1800 entitled Cursed Britain by Thomas Waters. The review is by Robert Leigh-Pemberton and opens with this: The “Swahili witch doctor”, installed in rooms “off the Edgware Road” by the … Continue reading
New Study of Wartime Literary London Reviewed
The Sunday Times reviews the new book about Wartime and Postwar London by D J Taylor. This is entitled Lost Girls and will be issued in London early next month. A January 2020 publication date in the USA is planned. … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged D.J.Taylor, James Carey, The Sunday Times
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Roundup: Waugh on Wine and More
–Literary critic and novelist A N Wilson writing in the Daily Mail has reviewed the recent reprint of Auberon Waugh’s book Waugh on Wine. According to Wilson: Celebrated author and journalist Auberon Waugh was an iconoclast, a political maverick and wine … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Auberon Waugh, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Documentaries, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Boris Johnson, Boston Globe, Daily Mail, Frances Donaldson, Wine Spectator
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“American Epoch” Revisited
In an article posted on the weblog, The Just Third Way, Michael Greaney discusses Waugh’s 1949 Life magazine article on the Roman Catholic Church in America. Greaney introduces the subject with a brief reference to several critics of the Church … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Love Among The Ruins, The Loved One
Tagged Life Magazine, Michael Greaney
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Easter Roundup
–The Australian religious journal Catholic Weekly has posted an essay entitled “The Easter yearning”. This is by Karl Schmude and begins with a discussion of the many ways Easter is misunderstood today. Among the examples is this from Evelyn Waugh: … Continue reading
Evelyn Waugh, Brexit and Prendergast’s Wig (More)
A new magazine based in London and called The Fence has published its first issue which is declared a “Brexit Special”. It describes itself as featuring: “Haunting insights, ridiculous conceits, pulsating fiction and just straight up lies: The Fence is … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Brexit, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Saoirse Mulvey, The Fence
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Roundup: Party Fiction and Personal Libraries
–The National Review has published a symposium on the subject of personal libraries in which participants explain the pleasure and burden they impose. Here’s the contribution of American literary critic Terry Teachout: My Manhattan apartment contains a thousand-odd books, but … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, A Little Learning, Adaptations, Events, Film, Newspapers, The Loved One, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Literary Hub, National Review, Paris Review, Terry Southern, Terry Teachout
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A Visit to the Disneyland of Death
An essay is posted on the website Hazlitt.net describing the visit of writer Larissa Diakiv to Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, CA. The website is described as “a home for writers and artists to tell the best stories about … Continue reading
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Tagged Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hazlitt.net, Larissa Diakiv
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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
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Beryl Cook, Folio Society, Harry Brockway, Kay Baylay, Quentin Blake
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