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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
John Betjeman on Stage
A one-man stage performance of Edward Fox playing Evelyn Waugh’s friend and Poet Laureate, John Betjeman, is currently touring Southern England. The play entitled “Sand in the Sandwiches” opened in Oxford last month and is reviewed in the Oxford Mail whose … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers, Oxford, Theater
Tagged Edward Fox, John Betjeman, Oxford Mail
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New Novel with Brideshead Theme
A new novel has a Brideshead theme. This is the third novel by Francesca Kay, whose first two were also well received. This one is entitled The Long Room and, according to a review by Max Davidson in the Mail … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged 1981, Francesca Kay, Mail on Sunday, Max Davidson
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Evelyn Waugh, Mark Twain, and US Election
Christopher Buckley, writing in the New York Times, invokes Evelyn Waugh in a review of an audiobook of Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Buckley turned on the recording and ran it straight through for 8 hours to … Continue reading
Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) R.I.P.
Poet, novelist and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen has died at the age of 82. In his native city, the Montreal Gazette has invoked the words of Evelyn Waugh in a memorial article: Evelyn Waugh once said at a certain point in his … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged Leonard Cohen, Montreal Gazette
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Vile Bodies, with an Emphasis on the Vile
The Sydney Morning Herald reviews a recently-opened exhibit of contemporary Chinese art that is somewhat misleadingly entitled “Vile Bodies.” Vile Bodies is a catchy title but there are very few points of comparison between Evelyn Waugh’s novel about the party-going lifestyles of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Events, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Sydney Morning Herald
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BL to Publish Collection of Travel Writing
British Library Publishing will issue a collection of travel writing early next year. This will be entitled The Writer Abroad: Literary Travellers from Anne Radcliffe to Evelyn Waugh. The book will be edited by Lucinda Hawksley, biographer, historian and promoter … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Non-fiction
Tagged British Library, Lucinda Hawksley, Travel Writing
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Waugh and Nostalgia
The Washington Post’s theatre critic Peter Marks waxes nostalgic in response to the current period of political turmoil consuming the United States. Most prominently, in a recent column entitled “Nostalgia! Yestalgia!”, he harks back to the “soothing” musical comedies of Rodgers and … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Miscellaneous, Newspapers
Tagged Nostalgia, Peter Marks, Washington Post
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Blue Feet and Smarty Boots
This week’s issue of Standpoint magazine reviews a autobiographical book by artist Nicky Loutit. The book is entitled New Year’s Day is Black. The review, by Jessica Douglas-Home, begins with this reference to the book’s preface, in which Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Cyril Connolly, D.J.Taylor, Janetta Kee, Nicky Loutit, Standpoint
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Review of Helena in Roman Catholic Journal
The Roman Catholic online journal Crisis Magazine, published by the Sophia Institute Press, has posted a retrospective review of Waugh’s 1950 historical novel Helena, possibly his least read work of book-length fiction. The review is entitled “A Catholic Satirist at Work” … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Helena
Tagged Crisis magazine, Michael de Sapio
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