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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Hard Cases: Drugs and Reality
The Spanish magazine Historia y Vida based in Barcelona has an article this month about Brenda Dean Paul. She was a member of the bright young people, and the story by Eva Melús connects her with Waugh’s novels of the … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Brenda Dean Paul, Catholic World Report, Historia y Vida, Madeleine L'Engle
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A Diary, a Legacy, and a First Edition
The long-running “Londoner’s Diary” column of the Evening Standard has been relaunched as “The Londoner” and has a new author, Charlotte Edwardes, who writes her introductory article with a nod to Evelyn Waugh and several of his friends: On my … Continue reading
Waugh Criminal
A new book about criminality in WWII (Merlin at War) has been written by Mark Ellis and is discussed on Historyextra.com (official website of the BBC History Magazine). The article opens with this: The Second World War was a golden … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, World War II
Tagged HistoryExtra.com, Independent (London), Racing Post, Ralph Hoare, Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Waugh and Norman Mailer: “The Naked and the Read”
This week’s TLS has an article (“The Naked and the Read”) about Norman Mailer’s library. This is by J Michael Lennon, Mailer’s archivist and authorized biographer. Mailer seems to have been a book accumulator rather than a book collector like … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Bibliophilia, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged J Michael Lennon, Norman Mailer, TLS
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CWEW Journalism Volume Published
Volume 26 of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh was published in the UK earlier this month and is available for sale. This is the fifth volume of the Complete Works to be published and first of four volumes in … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Collections, Complete Works, Essays, Articles & Reviews
Tagged Donat Gallagher, Oxford University Press
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Weekend Roundup: Brideshead in the News
Alan Hollinghurst’s latest novel The Sparsholt Affair is being released in the USA next week and is reviewed in the Boston Globe. The Globe’s reviewer, Priscilla Gilman, as with several in the UK, notes the book’s conections with Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited: … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop, Television, The Loved One
Tagged Alan Hollinghurst, BBC, Boston Globe, CBC, Meg Wolitzer, MSN, The Atlantic, The Guardian
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Waugh and Anthony Powell (More)
Waugh’s influence is prominently mentioned in a review in this week’s Die Tagespost, a German language paper sponsored by the Roman Catholic church. The review is by Urs Buhlmann and the book is Powell’s novel The Soldier’s Art which has been … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Biographies, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Anthony Powell, Die Tagespost, Martin McGinness, Sydney Morning Herald, Urs Buhlmann
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Evil Genius on BBC Podcast
BBC has signed comedian and Evelyn Waugh fan Russell Kane do a series of podcasts on the theme of the Evil Genius. In this, he will trace characters through history who have been geniuses but who have also done horrible … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged Adam Gopnick, BBC, Russell Kane, TLS
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Evelyn Waugh, Brexiteer?
In an article in the “pro-market” website Reaction, Alastair Benn considers why more artists do not support Britain’s exit from the EU. When he reviews where today’s writers come out on this subject, Evelyn Waugh’s name comes up: Although it might … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Newspapers, Scoop, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Brexit, Jimmy Page, John Betjeman, New York Review of Books, Reaction.life, The Times
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Weekend Roundup: French Connections
In a Times review of Nina Caplan’s new book The Wandering Vine: Wine, the Romans and Me, reviewer Michael Henderson includes this as his opening: “O for a beaker full of the warm south!” Keats, who died in Rome, gave … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Documentaries, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Television Programs, The Loved One, World War II
Tagged Channel 4, Cyril Connolly, Financial Times, France, Maclean's Magazine, Sonia Orwell, The Times, Winston Churchill
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