Category Archives: Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle

Waugh and Tito

Posted on February 3, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

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 →

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New Year’s Roundup

Posted on January 7, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

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 →

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Waugh Novel Among Abebooks’ 2017 Top Sellers

Posted on December 26, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

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 →

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Joan Didion Reviews Sword of Honour

Posted on November 17, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

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 →

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Virginia’s Little Problem

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

An article on the anti-abortion website LifeSite News considers descriptions of abortions in literature and notes, not surprisingly, that most of them are rather down beat. This is written by Jonathan Van Maren and is entitled “There are no happy … Continue reading →

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Latest Evelyn Waugh Studies Available

Posted on August 4, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The latest issue of the society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies has been issued. This is No. 48.1 (Spring 2017) and is available at this link. The contents are set out below: ARTICLES Et in Chatsworth Ego? by Peter J. Comerford Guy’s … Continue reading →

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Play About Sonia Orwell Opens in London

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Domenic Cavendish writing in the Daily Telegraph reviews a play entitled “Mrs Orwell” that opened recently in London. This is about Sonia Orwell, the secretary at Cyril Connolly’s Horizon magazine who married George Orwell a few weeks before his death. There … Continue reading →

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Jonkers Issue Waugh Catalogue

Posted on February 25, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Jonkers Books of Henley-on-Thames have issued a 70-page illustrated catalogue exclusively devoted to books and writings by Evelyn Waugh and his friends. Here’s a link to the online edition which is limited to books or other writings by Waugh or to which he … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s Scarf

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Croatian newspaper Jutarnji Vijesti (Morning News) published in Zagreb has a longish article about Waugh’s career in Yugoslavia in WWII and his connections with that country afterwards. The story opens with a description of a silk scarf on display in Rijeka. This … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh and “The Waste Land”

Posted on December 12, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The Guardian has named T S Eliot’s “The Waste Land” as its latest selection in its 100 best non-fiction books. See earlier post. Once again Evelyn Waugh is mentioned in connection with the selection: The Great War was a mass slaughter. … Continue reading →

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