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Category Archives: Labels
Norman Douglas: Forgotten Author?
An article about writer Norman Douglas (noted pedophile) has been inspired by the flurry of activity stirred up by a recent HBO documentary about the posthumous reputation of the singer Michael Jackson. This is by the author of a forthcoming … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Labels, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Norman Douglas, Rachel Hope Cleves, San Francisco Chronicle, South Wind, The Spectator
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End-of the-Month Roundup
–The Gale Group Publishing Company, which makes a speciality of marketing and distribution of digital historical archives, has posted on the internet several articles from its archive of The Listener magazine. One of these is a 1979 article by Graham … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Labels, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, When the Going Was Good
Tagged CityMetric.com, Dialogo Chino, Swindon Link, The Listener
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Waugh in Italy
Milena Borden has kindly sent along this report of the recent Waugh seminar in Milan: On 17 November, at the British Council in Milan, a seminar “A Waugh Fest” took place. It was sponsored by BookCity, Milan University and the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Labels, Lectures, Manuscripts, Vile Bodies
Tagged Bompiani, British Council Milan, Italian translations, Martin Stannard
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Roundup: Football, Ocean Liners and Bankers
–In the sports weblog Onside View, a blogger compares Waugh’s opening chapters of his 1930 travel book Labels to the situation facing Arsenal FC’s new manager: … Waugh travelled, and one of his earlier writings on such subject, Labels, saw … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Diaries, Labels, Newspapers, Scoop, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Australian Financial Review, Daily Mail, Frieze, Little Falls(WI) Journal, Onside View, recode.net
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Late July Roundup
–The Daily Telegraph has another story about the sale of Piers Court containing some new and corrected information: Piers Court at Stinchcombe occupies a remote corner of Gloucestershire. … It has views of the Welsh Hills and the Forest of … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Labels, Newspapers, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Booker Prize, Cunard Line, Daily Telegraph, MercatorNet.com, QInsider, The Irish Times, The Times
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Weekend Roundup: From Sword of Honour to Women of Knossos
In a recent issue of The Australian, Greg Sheridan writes about how his countrymen should deal with the shame of the recent cricket cheating scandal. This is entitled “National brand needs tending, not tears.” As an example of how the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Labels, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Boris Izaguirre, El Huffpost, kath.net, The Australian, The National Review, Weekly Standard
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Alastair Graham and Steven Runciman (more)
In a recent post we mentioned a weblog article that described the friendship or affair between Waugh’s Oxford friend Alastair Graham and historian Steven Runciman. The book cited in that article (Outlandish Knight by Minoo Dinwash) sheds additional light on this matter and … Continue reading
George Smiley and Basil Seal
The Evening Standard has reviewed John Le Carre’s latest novel A Legacy of Spies in which he revives his old characters from the George Smiley novels. The reviewer David Sexton has this observation about the pitfalls of this practice: Often it … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Basil Seal Rides Again, Discussions, Labels, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Evening Standard, John le Carre, New York University, Paula Byrne, Sir Arthur Evans, The Oldie
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Waugh in the Food Columns
Lisa Hilton, biographer, novelist and now food critic for Standpoint magazine, was apparently assigned to write a review of a new Italian restaurant in Covent Garden called Margot. This establishment was downgraded by some other food critics such as Jay … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Events, Labels, London, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daniel Hannan, Folio Society, Lisa Hilton, obesity, Puglia, Standpoint, V&A Museum
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