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Category Archives: Non-fiction
Presidents’ Day Roundup
–The New York Public Library is celebrating its 125th anniversary and has used the occasion to ask its staff to choose the best 125 books for adult reading published during its lifetime. One of those selected is Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Diaries, Newspapers, Remote People, Scoop
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Irish Times, Spectator, The Times newspaper, Times and Star (Cumbria)
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Waugh News from Slovenia and Sweden
The Slovenian online newspaper Ljubljanske Novice has published a brief review of the recent translation of Scoop into Slovenian (Esklusiva). See previous post. The novel is described as: …a satire on journalism. Waugh wrote the novel in part from the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Expressen, Ljubljanske Novice, Slovenia, Sweden
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George Steiner 1929-2020 R.I.P.
Literary critic and scholar George Steiner died last week in Cambridge, England at the age of 90. He is the latest eminent literary critic to pass away recently, starting with Harold Bloom in October and continuing with Samuel Hynes, Clive … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Dominic Green, George Steiner, New York Times, The Critic
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Late January Roundup
–The New York Times, in a recent column in its By The Book series, interviewed dramatist and gay health rights activist Larry Kramer. Waugh came up in this context: Q. What’s the last book you read that made you laugh? … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Newspapers, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Sword of Honour
Tagged Catholic News Service, Guardian, New York Times, St Louis Public Library, The Spectator
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Roundup: Labels Reattached
–The weblog Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings contains a review of Waugh’s early travel book Labels. This is a thoughtful critique of an often overlooked book: This is certainly no saccharine account of a trip round pretty places; if Waugh dislikes a … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Labels, Newspapers
Tagged Catholic Truth Society, Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings, National Catholic Register, The Oldie, TLS
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New Year’s Roundup
–On his weblog Anecdotal Evidence, Patrick Kurp has a posting that quotes and summarizes Waugh’s New Year’s article for Harper’s Bazaar, dated 9 January 1934. Here’s an excerpt: […] Waugh shifts between the personal and national. He had spent the first … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Ronald Knox
Tagged Anecdotal Evidence, Cherwell, Houston, Radio Spada
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Year End Roundup
—The Australian has a story headed by a photo of Evelyn Waugh.  The story is by Greg Harrison and is entitled “Our prime ministers need a holiday–and time to read a novel for pleasure.” After noting his disagreement with those who … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Labels, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged Martha Stewart, National Catholic Register, Sunday Telegraph, The Australian, The Spectator
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Waugh in History
Former Conservative MP and European Commissioner and now Life Peer Christopher Tugendhat has written a book called A History of Britain Through Books: 1900-1964. In his introduction, he explains that the book has “two wellsprings”. The first is his own … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Remote People, Scoop
Tagged Christopher Tugendhat, The Herald (Glasgow)
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Labels Reconsidered
A recent issue of the Goldsmiths, University of London literary magazine (GLITS-e-journal) is devoted to “The (Re)Imagined Mediterranean” and contains several articles on that theme. One of them, by post-graduate student Jasmine Bajada from the University of Malta, is entitled: … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Labels, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged GLITS-e-journal, Goldsmiths University of London, Jasmine Bajada
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Clive James (1939-2019) R. I. P.
The critic and poet Clive James has died at the age of 80, after a long fight with cancer. He was born in Australia and moved to England in the early 1960s where he finished his education at Cambridge University. … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Clive James, Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun (Melbourne)
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