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Category Archives: Non-fiction
Labels Reassessed
A multicultural, award-winning internet portal called Qantara.de has posted a new review (or reassessment) of Waugh’s 1930 travel book Labels: A Mediterranean Journey. This site is sponsored by several German cultural and political institutions, including the Goethe Institut and Deutsche … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Edmund Campion, Labels, Officers and Gentlemen
Tagged Qantara, Sherif Abdel Samad
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Black Mischief in Sri Lanka
In this week’s “Midweek Review” column in the daily Sri Lankan English-language newspaper The Island, columnist Dr. Kamal Wickremasinghe compares what he describes as the neocolonialist policies of the current government of Sri Lanka with the comic plot of Waugh’s … Continue reading
Brideshead People in Telegraph
Today’s Daily Telegraph contains a discussion (not quite a review) of the theatrical version of Brideshead Revisited that opened last week in York. This is in an article by Rupert Christiansen entitled: “What became of the real people who inspired … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Newspapers, Theater
Tagged Christopher Simpson, Daily Telegraph, Damian Cruden, Rupert Christiansen
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“BBC Future” Cites Waugh on Class Structure
On a recently established web site called BBC Future, one of their staff writers, David Robson, earlier this month posted an essay entitled “How much does social class matter in Britain today.” He concludes that it does still matter but to … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews
Tagged BBC Future, Class system, David Robson
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Evelyn Waugh’s Parthenon
A website called erenow (describing itself as a “large online library”) has posted portions of Mary Beard’s book The Parthenon (2010, revised). In the “Further Reading” section of her book, Professor Beard recommends Evelyn Waugh’s early travel book Labels. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Labels
Tagged Erenow, Prof. Mary Beard, The Parthenon
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Tourist in Africa as Prophecy
A blogger has posted on the internet his 27-page article on Waugh’s final (and much neglected) travel book Tourist in Africa. This is Dr. Robert Hickson who sees in Waugh’s descriptions of 1959 East Africa (particularly those of Tanganyika and … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Articles
Tagged catholicism.org, Dr. Robert Hickson, East Africa
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La Stampa Joins in Waugh Commemoration
The Italian newspaper La Stampa, based in Turin, last week published an article commemorating the 50th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s death. This is by Paolo Bertinetti and is entitled “Evelyn Waugh, conservatore senza nulla da conservare” (“Conservative with nothing to preserve”). The … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, A Little Learning, Anniversaries, Articles, Letters, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Graham Greene, Italy, La Stampa, Paolo Bertinetti
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50th Anniversary and Rex Mottram Feature on Weblogs
Mike T in his weblog Boats Against the Current added another article to the growing list of internet encomia on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Waugh’s death. He makes an interesting comparison with other writers of a curmudgeonly type: … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Helena, The Holy Places
Tagged Boats Against the Current, National Catholic Register, Weblogs
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Waugh Anniversary Observed in Canada
A Canadian paper, the National Post, commemorates the 50th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s death with an article by a Roman Catholic priest who teaches at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. This is Fr. Raymond de Souza. The article opens with a … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Edmund Campion, Helena, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Fr. Raymond de Souza, National Post
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