Category Archives: Vile Bodies

Roundup: From Aston Clinton to Holkham Hall

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Jeffrey Manley

–Duncan Mclaren has expanded his discussion of Waugh’s school teaching career at Aston Clinton based on his newly available materials. The discussion has been posted on Duncan’s website. Here is an excerpt from the introduction to give you some idea … Continue reading →

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Mid-July Roundup

Posted on July 19, 2024 by Jeffrey Manley

–British author, commentator and journalist Gerald Warner has posted an article entitled “Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell–visions of a vanished Britain.” In this he compares the lives and writings of the two authors who were also friends in real life. … Continue reading →

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Bank Holiday/Memorial Day Roundup

Posted on May 28, 2024 by Jeffrey Manley

–Novelist Kevin Kwan was recently interviewed in LitHub. This was on the occasion of last week’s issuance of his latest novel Lies and Weddings. Here’s the opening: Kevin Kwan’s much anticipated new novel, Lies and Weddings, is out today [21 … Continue reading →

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Mothers’ Day (U.S.) Roundup

Posted on May 11, 2024 by Jeffrey Manley

–An article in this week’s TLS (10 May 2024) marks the centenary of the 1924 novel The Green Hat by Michael Arlen. He was something of a one hit wonder, as the article by Philip Ward explains. Here are some … Continue reading →

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Late Winter Roundup

Posted on March 9, 2024 by Jeffrey Manley

–The Daily Telegraph has an article by Bernard Richards in which he considers how difficult it can be to translate idiomatic English words and phrases into French. He also notes Evelyn Waugh had struggled with the same problem: …English idioms … Continue reading →

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New Years Roundup

Posted on December 31, 2023 by Jeffrey Manley

–The website LibraryThing.com has posted a review of the Folio Society editions of Black Mischief of which there have been three. Here’s the text: [Black Mischief] is a quite politically incorrect farce set in 1930 in the mythical country of … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Kitsch, Photos and a War

Posted on December 10, 2023 by Jeffrey Manley

–Last week, a group of Waugh scholars convened by Zoom.com to listen to and discuss a talk by Professor Taichi Koyama on the subject Waugh and Kitsch. Here’s a description of Prof. Koyama’s presentation: Evelyn Waugh’s novels, from the earlier … Continue reading →

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Advent Roundup

Posted on December 2, 2023 by Jeffrey Manley

–The religious website Thinking Faith has posted an essay by Gerard Kilroy, who is, inter alia, co-editor of the recently published volume of Edmund Campion in the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. In this essay, Kilroy explains in some detail the … Continue reading →

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Roundup: a Film, a Warrior and a Hoax

Posted on November 18, 2023 by Jeffrey Manley

—The Conversation has posted an article by literary scholar Christine Berberich, who teaches at the University of Portsmouth and is well known to members of the society through her writings and participation in its events. This latest essay explains the … Continue reading →

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Armistice Day Roundup

Posted on November 12, 2023 by Jeffrey Manley

—The Spectator carries an article revealing renewed interest in the works of innovative novelist Ronald Firbank. This is by contemporary novelist Alan Hollinghurst and is inspired by the recent erection of a Blue Plaque commemorating Firbank’s residence at 33 Curzon … Continue reading →

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