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Category Archives: Non-fiction
Waugh’s Advice Quoted in Middle East Conflict
Conservative internet news site Newsmax carries an article (“Russia’s Presence a Bad Sign for Israel”) in which it considers the impact on Israel of Russia’s active entry into the civil war in Syria. Their correspondent, Herbert London, cites Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Robbery Under Law
Tagged Civil War in Syria, Israel, Newsmax, Russia
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Article Compares Waugh Views on Abyssinia
The latest edition of British-based journal History Today (access to full article requires subscription) contains a survey of previous writings relating to Haile Selassie, late emperor of Abyssinia. The article, entitled “Abyssinia Out of the Shadows,” is written by literary … Continue reading
Posted in Remote People, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Haile Selassie, History Today, Jeffrey Meyers
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New Book On Campion Anticipated by Waugh
A new book on the life of Edmund Campion was recently published. This is Edmund Campion: A Scholarly Life by UCL Professor Gerard Kilroy issued by Ashgate Publishing. The publisher’s announcement mentions Waugh’s anticipation of such a scholarly work when he wrote what he … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Edmund Campion
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Waugh and Psychedelia
This week’s Spectator reviews a book by Rob Chapman about the history of psychedelic drugs. The title is Psychedelia and Other Colours . The book includes a consideration of the contribution made by novelist Aldous Huxley to the popularization of drugs … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, The Loved One
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay, Psychedelic Drugs, The Spectator magazine
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Travel-Writing Geezers
Yesterday’s South China Morning Post reviews a collection of travel writing by those over 60: To Oldly Go. The reviewer separates the writers into those who find travel wonderful, those who take themselves too seriously and those “who have gradually become world-weary, curmudgeonly … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Labels, Ninety-Two Days, Remote People, When the Going Was Good
Tagged South China Morning Post, To Oldly Go, Travel Writing
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Waugh on Spender
Satirist Craig Brown has reviewed a memoir of poet Stephen Spender in this week’s Mail on Sunday. This is a book by Spender’s son Matthew entitled A House in St. John’s Wood: In Search of My Parents. Among other revelations, … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday, Matthew Spender, Stephen Spender
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Evelyn Waugh and Middle Age
In a recent column in The Independent, D.J. Taylor describes the evolution of the concept of middle age. He invokes the writings of Evelyn Waugh to illustrate the attitude toward middle age of those bright young people who were young adults in … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews
Tagged D.J.Taylor, The Independent
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Max and Diana
Many of our readers will be familiar with the story of how Waugh’s friend Diana Mosley (nee Mitford) and her husband Sir Oswald Mosley (leader of the British Fascist party) were imprisoned in 1940. Diana had, a few weeks before entering prison, given … Continue reading
Posted in Labels, Letters, Vile Bodies, Work Suspended
Tagged Diana Mosley, Guardian, Max Mosley, The Spectator
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