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Category Archives: Non-fiction
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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Pre-Thanksgiving Roundup
–Writing in the Guardian, columnist Marina Hyde looks at the recent debacle arising from Prince Andrew’s BBC Newsnight interview. Her story is entitled “How badly must you do your job for your own mother to fire you?” After several comparisons, … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, When the Going Was Good
Tagged Country Life, Daily Telegraph, Este Pais, Guardian, The American Interest, The Spectator
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Waugh Letters to Richard Plunket Greene on Offer
Southeby’s has announced the auction of 10 letters from Evelyn Waugh, written while he was teaching at Arnold House School in North Wales. Here’s the description: 10 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, EIGHT TO RICHARD PLUNKET GREENE, ONE TO HIS MOTHER GWEN … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Auctions, Decline and Fall, Items for Sale, Letters
Tagged Richard Plunket Greene, Southeby's
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The Elections and the Waughs
Writing in the Daily Mail, Craig Brown looks back 60 years to the UK election of 1959 which he says is the first one influenced by television. For the first time, the majority of voters had television sets: So keen … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Auberon Waugh, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Brexit Party, Daily Mail, elections, Somerset County Gazette
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