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Category Archives: Non-fiction
Roundup
–The Irish Times has a story about a visit to Birr Castle in Ireland. This is the home of the Earls of Rosse, and the present Lady Rosse conducts the IT ‘s reporter, Rosita Boland, through the house in a televised … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Biographies, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Ronald Knox
Tagged Daily Mail, DBC Pierre, Epoch Times, First Things, Guardian, Irish Times, The Scotsman
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A Handful of Offense
Writing in the Catholic Herald, novelist and critic Philip Hensher considers the implications of the current movement to suppress or destroy monuments and other public expressions that give offense to the present generation. This is in an article entitled: “Many … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Remote People
Tagged Catholic Herald, Philip Hensher
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Another Spanish Review of Wine in Peace and War
A few weeks after the appearance of an article about Waugh’s Wine in Peace and War appeared in a regional Spanish paper, another article has appeared in the Canary Islands. This is by Luis M Alonso and is entitled “El … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Wine in Peace and War
Tagged El Día: La Opinion de Tenerife, Luis M Alonso, Saccone & Speed
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Waugh and Saint Sophia
A story by Dr Binoy Kampmark, Selwyn College, Cambridge, about the reconversion of the Saint Sophia cathedral in Istanbul from a museum to a mosque opens with this quote from Evelyn Waugh: When the caustic Evelyn Waugh visited the majestic … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Labels
Tagged Dr Binoy Kampmark, Saint Sophia Cathedral, Turkey
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Saccone & Speed Profiled in Spanish Paper
The Spanish language newspaper Diario de Jerez has published a feature story on the wine merchants Saccone & Speed. The firm was founded and located in nearby Gibraltar and imported wine from, inter alia, the province of Jerez. A portion … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Wine in Peace and War
Tagged Diario de Jerez, Saccone & Speed
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Summer Solstice Roundup
–Peter Quennell may be having a revival. Duncan McLaren (see previous post) has now been joined by A N Wilson in recounting his career. Wilson in a memoir posted by The Oldie discusses several first hand meetings he had with … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Newspapers, Rossetti: His Life and Works
Tagged A N Wilson, The Critic, The Hollywood Reporter, The Independent (Ireland), The Oldie, TLS
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Campion in La Prensa
The Buenos Aires paper La Prensa has published a review of Waugh’s biography Edmund Campion. The review, which is unsigned, opens with this: Evelyn Waugh wrote this book between 1934 and 1935, in homage to the Jesuit College of Oxford … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Edmund Campion, Newspapers
Tagged La Prensa (Buenos Aires)
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Juneteenth Roundup
–A recent article in the Times newspaper criticizes plans for reopening some schools after lockdown with what it sees as a confusing “blend” of in-school live and at-home online teaching. Alex Massie opens the article with a quote from Evelyn … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scott-King's Modern Europe, Waugh in Abyssinia, When the Going Was Good
Tagged Daily Mail, Il Primato Nazionale, Information.dk, Jakob Illeborg, Kenyon Review, London Library, The Times
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Peter Quennell: Reviewer and Rival
Two recent articles by Duncan McLaren have been devoted to Peter Quennell. Waugh had developed a particular dislike of Quennell (similar to that he had of other literary critics such as Alan Pryce-Jones and Edmund Wilson). The acquaintanceship between Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Festivals, Newspapers, Rossetti: His Life and Works
Tagged Daily Mail, Duncan McLaren
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Brideshead @ 75: The Economist and The Tablet
–The current issue of The Economist includes in its Arts section an article entitled “The Flyte club.” This is the magazine’s commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the publication of Brideshead in 1945. After a brief survey of the somewhat … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Gerard Kilroy, The Economist, The Tablet
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