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Category Archives: Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
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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Groundhog Day Roundup
—The Economist started the week with a story headed by this discussion of a Waugh novel: Evelyn Waugh, a satirist of pre-war England and of the careless aristocrats who ran it, would have had a field day with the modern … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Letters, Newspapers, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Com, iNews.co.uk, New Criterion, The Economist, The Oldie, The Spectator, truthdig
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Summer Bank Holiday Roundup
–D J Taylor in the latest issue of Literary Review has written a review of the new biography by Patrick Donovan. This is entitled Arnold Bennett: Last Icon. It was mentioned in a previous post. Here’s an excerpt from the … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, Waugh Family
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Duncan McLaren, Evening Standard, Guardian, Literary Review, The Monthly
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Waugh Website Expansion
Duncan McLaren has rearranged his Waugh website in order to accommodate new entries. This involves creation of a new website where he will include all material relating to Waugh’s war and postwar life and writings (from 1939). Original material relating … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Officers and Gentlemen, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Duncan McLaren
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Roundup: Book List and Bullingdon
–Charles Moore writing in the Daily Telegraph has a story entitled “Not even the Queen’s Jubilee is safe from BBC preaching: There are good writers all across the Commonwealth, but Auntie insists on telling us that it knows best”. He … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Oxford, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged BBC, Bullingdon Club, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Queen's Jubilee Book List, The Critic, The Spectator
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Joan Didion (1934-2021) R. I. P.
American novelist, essayist and journalist Joan Didion (1934-2021) died earlier this week in New York City at the age of 87. A memorial column in the National Review remembers her as an early contributor to their pages in what was … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Joan Didion, National Review
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Roundup: Travel Book Revival?
–A new book about travel writing has been published. Ever hopefully, a new look for a possible revival of the genre is undertaken by Tim Hannigan in his book The Travel Writing Tribe. This is reviewed by Noo Saro-Wiwa and … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers, Non-fiction, Television, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Above the Law, Sydney Morning Herald, The Letterpress Project, The Times, TLS, Travel Writing
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Sword of Honour Reviewed in Italy (More)
Luca Fumagalli has completed his review of Sword of Honour with two installments in subsequent postings on Radio Spada. See previous post for volume 1. The review and summary of second volume Officers and Gentlemen (Ufficiale e Gentiluomini in Italian) … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Sword of Honour, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Luca Fumagalli, Radio Spada, translations
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Memoir of “The Loot”
David Platzer has written a memoir of his acquaintanceship with Stuart Preston who was well known during his military service days among Waugh and his friends in WWII London. The memoir, entitled “A Sergeant Abroad”, appears in the latest issue … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Andy Warhol, David Platzer, New Criterion, Stuart Preston
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