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Category Archives: Vile Bodies
Roundup: Single-Sex Schools, The Mitfords, and Tales from Amazonia
–In last week’s Sunday Telegraph, Rowan Pelling had an article entitled “When single-sex schools die, will we all be poorer?” Here is an extract: …I can’t help wondering how the shelves of children will look in 20 years after all … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Labels, Newspapers, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, Tatler, The Mitfords
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Washington’s Birthday Roundup
–D J Taylor has written a thoughtful obituary of David Lodge in the latest issue of the journal New Criterion. This is based on his review of Lodge’s life as written in the three-volume autobiography published in Lodge’s final years. … Continue reading
Valentine’s Day Roundup
–Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the New York Times Book Review has posted this notice in its “Read Like the Wind” column. It is written by Book Review editor Joumana Khatib: The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy, by Evelyn … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Mail, New York Times, P.G.Wodehouse, Robert Plunket, The Daily Telegraph, The Hudson Review, The Spectator, W H Pritchard
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Roundup: Renewed Interest in Rosemary Tonks
–The London Review of Books reviews the reprints of three of the later novels by poet-novelist Rosemary Tonks. She wrote during the period 1963-1980. After a rather difficult life, she stopped writing in 1980 to become a fundamentalist Christian, dying … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged London Review of Books, Rosemary Tonks, The Guardian, The Spectator, Vanity Fair
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Roundup: Euthanasia, Stiff-upper-lips, and Feminism
–American journalist Roger Kimball, writing in The Spectator, offers his views on certain aspects of legislation proposed by the new Labour Government: …What if you are old, sick or just plain inconvenient? Starmer’s government has a plan for you, too. … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers, Oxford, Photographs, Podcast, Vile Bodies
Tagged Catholic World Report, MIT Press, The Spectator, Tyler Cowen
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Roundup: From Arcadia to Bohemia
—The Irish Rover, a newspaper sponsored by University of Notre Dame (in Indiana, not Ireland), has posted a brief article on the origins of “Arcadia”. This is by Santiago Legarre who is a visiting professor at the Notre Dame Law … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Labels, Vile Bodies
Tagged Financial Times, Harold Acton, Reaction.life, The Irish Rover, TLS
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Roundup: Cousins, Catholics, Allegories and Adaptations
–The London Review of Books has posted a review by Neal Acherson of the new biography of Claude Cockburn by his son Patrick. This in mentioned in a previous post and is entitled “Believe Nothing Until It Has Been Officially … Continue reading
Roundup: From Aston Clinton to Holkham Hall
–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
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Duncan McLaren, New Statesman, NSS Magazine, Words on Fire
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Mid-July Roundup
–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
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Photographs, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Alistair Graham, Anthony Powell, Caledonian Road, Daily Telegraph, Eucharistic Congress, Foreign Policy, Gerald Warner, Nicholas Lezard
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