Category Archives: Non-fiction

St Patrick’s Day Roundup

Posted on March 19, 2021 by Jeffrey Manley

–RAI Radio 3 has posted a podcast relating to the new Italian translation of A Little Learning. Here is a translation of the introduction: Let’s not expect the usual self-glorification of the middle-aged writer: Waugh takes us first to get to … Continue reading →

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Travel Book Launch

Posted on March 2, 2021 by Jeffrey Manley

The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project last week conducted a virtual book launch for the next two books to be published in the series: Ninety-Two Days and A Tourist in Africa. The meeting was conducted by Barbara Cooke, a … Continue reading →

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Wilfred Thesiger Profiled in “The Article”

Posted on February 18, 2021 by Jeffrey Manley

Biographer Jeffrey Meyers has written a profile of pre-eminent British travel writer Wilfred Thesiger. This is posted in the online literary journal The Article. Meyers begins by recalling his 1979 interview of Thesiger in the latter’s London apartment. He notes … Continue reading →

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Italian Version of A Little Learning

Posted on February 12, 2021 by Jeffrey Manley

Evelyn Waugh’s autobiography A Little Learning will come out in an Italian edition next week. This is entitled  Autobiografia di un perdigiorno (Autobiography of an Idler).  Here is a translated excerpt of a review in Il Giornali by Stenio Solinas … Continue reading →

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Year’s End Roundup

Posted on December 29, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–Writing in The Critic, Clive Aslet discusses the decision of the Tate Gallery to close its restaurant in response to its designation as “racist” conferred on the mural of Rex Whistler, which decorates its restaurant. See earlier post. Aslet puts … Continue reading →

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Pearl Harbor Day Roundup

Posted on December 8, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–According to a report in The Times, the Tate Britain is considering the future of Rex Whistler’s well-known mural that decorates the walls of its restaurant: A mural in Tate Britain’s restaurant depicting two enslaved black children has been described … Continue reading →

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Post-Thanksgiving Roundup

Posted on November 30, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–Stig Abell, former editor of the TLS, has written a book entitled Things I Learned on the 6:28 in which he writes about books he has read while commuting. The Times has posted a selection of the comic novels he … Continue reading →

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Muggeridge Anniversary

Posted on October 13, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The National Review has posted both print and audio versions of an article in which M D Aeschliman notes the upcoming 30th anniversary of Malcolm Muggeridge’s death. It opens with this: Malcolm Muggeridge died 30 years ago and had so … Continue reading →

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“92 Days” Complete Works Edition Announced

Posted on October 10, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Oxford University Press has announced the UK publication date for its definitive edition of Waugh’s 1934 travel book Ninety-Two Days. This will appear in the UK on 25 February 2021, the same UK publication date as the previously-announced A … Continue reading →

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90th Anniversary of Waugh’s First Visit to Ethiopia: 10 October 1930

Posted on October 9, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The following post is by Waugh Society member Milena Borden and is a preliminary version of a longer article that is being prepared for publication in a future issue of Evelyn Waugh Studies: In July, it was reported that the … Continue reading →

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