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Category Archives: Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
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
Waugh and “Mrs Bluefeet” in New Book
The latest Literary Review has an essay by novelist and literary critic D J Taylor about what he calls “biographer’s luck”. The was inspired by his latest biography to be published next month in the UK. An American edition entitled The … Continue reading
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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Waugh’s “Hungry Novels” in TLS
Literary journalist and critic Laura Freeman writes in this week’s TLS of a subgenre she defines as the “hungry novels” which flourished in the 1940s-50s. Her essay opens with an extended reference to the scene in Brideshead Revisited where Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Put Out More Flags, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Hungry Novels, Laura Freeman, TLS
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Something for the New Year
Constable has announced the publication later in the new year of a book by D J Taylor entitled Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature: 1939-51: Who were the Lost Girls? At least a dozen or so young women at large in … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Cyril Connolly, D.J.Taylor, Horizon magazine
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Céline, Muriel Spark and Lloyd Cole
Frederic Raphael is still best known for the TV adaptation of his own 1976 novel The Glittering Prizes, which is often compared with Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. Indeed, it is not too much to say that the popular and critical success … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Television, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, Vile Bodies, World War II
Tagged Celine, Frederic Raphael, Guardian, Lancashire Post, Lloyd Cole, Muriel Spark, The Commotions, The Glittering Prizes, TLS
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Waugh and Tito
Standpoint magazine in its current issue has reprinted a letter from Milena Borden who is also one of our readers. She was commenting on an article in the magazine’s November issue as explained in her letter. Here is the text of … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Marshall Tito, Milena Borden, Robin Harris, Standpoint Magazine, Yugoslavia
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New Year’s Roundup
A recent review in The Times of Tina Brown’s new book The Vanity Fair Diaries opens with this: “Where you see zippy, zesty lesbian Jewesses bubbling with new ideas, I see plodding, ill-mannered, bottomlessly earnest boobies . . . I do not … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Events, Newspapers, Scoop, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Daily Mail, Guardian, honours list, Paul Bradbury, The Times, Tina Brown, Total Croatia News
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Waugh Novel Among Abebooks’ 2017 Top Sellers
Abebooks has announced its highest priced books for 2017. A set of Waugh’s war trilogy came in at #16 and sold for $12,500. Here is the seller’s description: First editions of each volume in the author’s acclaimed Sword of Honour … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh, First Editions, Items for Sale, Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Abebooks. J F Powers
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Joan Didion Reviews Sword of Honour
In an article posted on the website Acculturated, Nic Rowan discusses novelist and essayist Joan Didion’s early career of reviewing books for the National Review in the 1960s. Rowan claims that her later career cannot be fully understood without considering … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Acculturated, Joan Didion, National Review, Nic Rowan
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