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Category Archives: Work Suspended
Roundup: America, America
–The Jesuit magazine America has posted a survey 0f its coverage of Waugh and his works dating back to 1931. This is entitled “God’s grump: The irascible Evelyn Waugh” and was written by James T Keane. Here are the opening … Continue reading
Posted in Basil Seal Rides Again, Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Items for Sale, Newspapers, Oxford, Work Suspended
Tagged America magazine, Clarissa Churchill, New York Times, Prof. Martin Stannard, The Times newspaper
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Roundup: From Party Going to Boredom
–A recent issue of Financial Times contains a “Weekend Essay” on the return of the party, to London and New York at least. This is by Alex Bilmes who is editor of Esquire. After reminiscing about how party going shut … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Vile Bodies, Work Suspended
Tagged Craig Brown, Daily Mail, Financial Times, Madeleine Kearns, Mail on Sunday, National Catholic Register, The Spectator
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Max Mosley 1940-2021 R.I.P.
The death was announced yesterday of Max Mosley, best remembered as the head of Formula One racing, who sorted it out during his tenure. He is also well known as the son of Diana Mitford and her second husband Oswald … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Work Suspended
Tagged Daily Mail, Max Mosley
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War Trilogy: Fake Novels and an Anniversary
In the latest issue of TLS, D J Taylor has written an essay on what he calls “Made-up Stories” or fake novels. What reminded him of the genre (if that’s what it is) was his recent re-reading of Anthony Powell’s … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, Work Suspended, World War II
Tagged Brenthursst Foundation, D.J.Taylor, Daily Maverick, TLS
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A Tale of Two Atwaters
Duncan McLaren has posted an article about an interesting crossover between novels of Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell. On Waugh’s side this appears in Work Suspended (written 1939/published 1942) in which the minor character of Arthur Atwater appears. The connection … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Work Suspended
Tagged Anthony Powell, Duncan McLaren
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80th Anniversary of WWII
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the beginning of WWII when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. The attack fulfilled Evelyn Waugh’s expectations that a war was imminent after Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact the previous week. See … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Diaries, Put Out More Flags, Work Suspended, World War II
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Roundup: The Walrus and the Waugh Scholars
–Duncan McLaren has added a new article to his Evelyn Waugh website relating to three of the first volumes of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Precocious Waughs (v.30), Essays, Articles and Reviews 1922-1934 (v.26), and A Little Learning (v.19). He … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Complete Works, Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Newspapers, Work Suspended
Tagged Catholic Herald, Duncan McLaren, Literary Hub, Marcel Proust, The Tatler
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Latest EW Studies Features New Views of Brideshead
The latest issue of the Society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies has been published (Number 48.3, Winter 2017). The lead article, Brideshead Rearranged: Charm, Grace, and Waugh’s Building of Worlds, by Grazie Sophia Christie, is the winner of the 2017 John … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Conferences, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Undergraduate Essay Contest, Work Suspended
Tagged Anthony Powell, David Fensome, Hilary Spurling
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Waugh on Father’s Day
On the occasion of Father’s Day, in the San Diego Reader, a free distribution weekly newspaper, columnist Matthew Lickona has picked through his previous articles for those relating to fatherhood. This one from 1997 cites one of Waugh’s more neglected writings: …In … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Work Suspended
Tagged Diario de Cadiz, Father's Day, San Diego Reader
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