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Category Archives: Remote People
Presidents Day Roundup
–An article in the current issue of Prospect Magazine wonders when contemporary writers will learn how to successfully incorporate text messages into fiction narratives. By way of background, the article by Jemma Slingo explains how Evelyn Waugh pioneered the technique … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Letters, Newspapers, Remote People, Vile Bodies
Tagged Catholic Herald, China Rhyming, Daily Telegraph, Isabella Hanger, Max Beerbohm, Monterey County Weekly, Patrick Kurp, Prospect Magazine, The Oldie
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New German Edition of Remote People Reviewed
A review of the 2018 German edition of Waugh’s Remote People is published in this month’s online issue of literaturkritik.de. The German title is Expeditionen eines englischen Gentleman, literally “Expeditions of an English Gentleman”. This review is by Sylvia Heudecker who … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Newspapers, Remote People
Tagged Abyssinia, German translations, literaturkritik.de
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Sunday Roundup: from Rails to Balls
–The new railroad line from Djibouti to Addis Ababa is featured in a recent illustrated story in the Irish Times. This project was financed by the Chinese and was placed into full operation earlier this year. The service is now … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Black Mischief, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Remote People, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Catholic Herald, Daily Mail, Irish Times, TLS
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Political Roundup
Waugh’s novel Scoop tops the list of those works cited in this week’s political press: –Tina Brown writes on the 10th anniversary of her news website The Daily Beast and recalls the selection of its name: A vexing problem in … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Festivals, Newspapers, Remote People, Scoop
Tagged Australia, Brexit, Ethiopia, International Policy Digest, The Daily Beast, The Times, Tina Brown
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Roundup: From Australia to Europe via Mexico
–A recent issue of The Australian has an essay by Paul Monk entitled “Western Civilisation: A primer for willing readers.” This includes a broad consideration of liberal arts educational experiences over the years. Among those discussed are the Oxford years … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford, Put Out More Flags, Remote People, Robbery Under Law
Tagged Alex Murray, Edward Gibbon, FiveBooks, Junge Welt, Project MUSE, The Australian, TLS
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Roundup: Ruins, Snobs and Remittance Men
An art exhibit in Sheffield is named for a Waugh story. This is Love Among the Ruins at the S1 Artspace gallery. The gallery is temporarily located in the garage of the Park Hill housing estate while another part of … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers, Oxford, Remote People, The Loved One
Tagged Hertford College, Professor Mondo, The Mercury (South Africa), The Star (Sheffield), Volksstimme (Basel)
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Anthony Bourdain (1956-2018)
There is not much to connect TV presenter Anthony Bourdain, whose death was announced earlier this week, and Evelyn Waugh except for their inclination to travel to difficult destinations and then report about it. Bourdain was also a writer, and … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Remote People, Television Programs
Tagged Anthony Bourdain, Dappled Things, Michael Rennier
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Waugh Watering Holes in the News
Two pubs associated with Evelyn Waugh’s life in the 1920-30s have recently been in the news: the Abingdon Arms in Beckley, Oxon., and the Fair View Inn in Llanddulas, North Wales. In one case the news is good, in the … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Events, Newspapers, Oxford, Remote People, Vile Bodies, Wales
Tagged Abingdon Arms Beckley, Daily Post, Fair View Inn, JustGiving.com, Llanddulas (North Wales)
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Ethiopia Explicated: Waugh and Wakanda
In an article posted on the news website Taki’s Magazine, journalist and blogger Steve Sailer offers what seems a good summary history of Ethiopia. Perhaps central to his explanation of why an ancient Christian civilization and monarchy survived in the … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Remote People, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia, When the Going Was Good
Tagged "Wakanda", Adam Nebbs, Counter-Currents.com, Ethiopia, James J O'Meara, South China Morning Post, Steve Sailer, Taki's Magazine
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