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Category Archives: The Loved One
John Ivan Simon (1925-2019): R. I. P.
John Simon, one of America’s great critics of theatre and film died in November the age of 94. His death was widely noted, and this obituary excerpted from the New York Times is fairly representative: In a style that danced … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged John Simon, New York Times, Tablet Magazine
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Waugh’s New Year’s Eve 1947
The Herald (Glasgow) has a story about Scottish New Year celebrations (known as Hogmanay) that starts with this reference to an Evelyn Waugh novel. THERE’S a wonderful line about Hogmanay in Evelyn Waugh’s classic 1948 novel, The Loved One. Dennis Barlow, … Continue reading
Armistice Day Roundup
— Fr John Hunwicke posting on his website addresses literary works related to the commemoration of Armistice Day (Remembrance Sunday in the UK): As far as WW2 is concerned, I often think about the contrast between two great fictional literary … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Decline and Fall, Events, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged English National Opera, Fr John Hunwicke, New York Public Library, New York Times, New Yorker
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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
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Daily Telegraph, National Public Radio, Stream.org, Yorkshire Post
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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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