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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Mid-July Roundup
–Novelist, critic and literary biographer DJ Taylor in this month’s Literary Review writes about literary biographies. His own most recent efforts in this field are a revision and expansion of his biography of George Orwell originally published in 2003 and … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Biographies, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, First Editions, The Loved One
Tagged Charlie Watts, Literary Review, Movieweb, OurSundayVisitor, The Spectator
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Campion Lecture in Oxford Announced
Campion Hall, Oxford has announced a public lecture in September that may be of interest to our readers: Professor Gerard Kilroy, Senior Fellow in English at Campion Hall, will be delivering a public lecture to celebrate the 400th anniversary of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Edmund Campion, Lectures, Oxford
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4th of July Roundup
–The website LitHub.com has a story about a proposal by the former royal couple Harry and Meghan to Netflix for what sounds like a prequel to Great Expectations. Should that fail to be commissioned, the LitHub reporter Janet Manley has … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Auctions, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Portraits, Vile Bodies
Tagged Country Life, LitHub.com, Nigeness.com, Tennants, The Comic Muse
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Complete Works Featured in TLS
A review of the four latest volumes in the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh series is featured on the cover of this week’s TLS. This is written by literary critic Peter Parker and entitled “A Handful of Books: Evelyn Waugh’s … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Complete Works, Edmund Campion, Robbery Under Law, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Oxford University Press, Peter Parker, TLS
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Summer Solstice Roundup
–In a recent issue of The Sunday Times, Matthew Syed discussed the legacy of Boris Johnson. This excerpt appears near the beginning: We always knew Johnson was a skilled deceiver and dissimulator. In his book Chums, Simon Kuper tells of … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged London Review of Books, Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Jewish Chronicle
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Rossetti Reviewed
Waugh Society member Milena Borden has kindly prepared the following review of the Dante Gabriel Rossetti exhibit currently running at the Tate Britain museum. This was mentioned in previous postings. The review is entitled “What Is Wrong with Rossetti?”: The … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, PRB, Rossetti: His Life and Works
Tagged Tate Britain, The Rossettis
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Early June Roundup
–The New Statesman reports the confused results of the controversial Oxford Union appearance of Prof. Kathleen Stock, described as a “gender-critical feminist philosopher”. After the Union invited her to speak, a protest arose against her appearance as being unfair to … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Chronicles, Daily Telegraph, Holland Festival, New Statesman
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Memorial Day/Spring Bank Holiday Roundup
—The Spectator has posted a memorial tribute to its recently deceased columnist Jeremy Clarke. This is by David Goodhart who writes that he gave Clarke his start as a journalist. Clarke’s longest and best known gig was the Low-Life column … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Obituaries, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Waugh Family
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Jeremy Clarke, Martin Amis, The Daily Sceptic, The Lamp, The Spectator, The Times, Washington Post
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Martin Amis R. I. P. (1949-2023)
Novelist and critic Martin Amis has died at the age of 73. Dwight Garner, a book critic of the New York Times, opens that paper’s obituary with this: Martin Amis, whose caustic, erudite and bleakly comic novels redefined British fiction … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Obituaries
Tagged Martin Amis, New York Times, The Herald (Glasgow), The Times newspaper, UnHerd.com
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