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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
The Loved One Named in Best-of-Century Film List
The filmblog Zekefilm has compiled a list of notable films from the past hundred years dating back to 1915. It names a film released in the mid year of each decade. The idea seems to be to offer a representative and interesting … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Film, The Loved One
Tagged Tony Richardson, Zekefilm
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Aloysius in the News
Sebastian’s Aloysius made the news twice this week. In the bookblog InterestingLiterature, he is mentioned in connection with John Betjeman’s poem “Archibald.” This poem is among Betjeman’s 10 best (i.e., most readable) poems, as selected by the blog: Archibald Ormsby-Gore was, … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Aloysius, Archibald, Guardian, Interesting Literature, John Betjeman
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Waugh’s Encounter
It has long been known that Encounter magazine, a leading cultural journal during the cold war, was secretly backed by funds from the CIA. This information came out during the protest movement in the Vietnam War period, and the magazine’s … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Collections, Essays, Articles & Reviews
Tagged Encounter, National Post, Robert Fulford
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Source of Azania
A recent debate started on the Facebook page of a South African politician has migrated to the op ed pages of the newspapers. Earlier this month, Tito Mboweni, a retired Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, proposed that the name … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Scoop
Tagged Andrew Donaldson, Azania, Christopher Hitchens, Weekend Argus
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Waugh’s Travel Diary
A book has been published that is made up of travel entries by various writers in diaries, journals and letters. These are arranged by the day and month on which they are written so that the reader may select a travel … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Miscellaneous
Tagged A Traveller's Year, Daily Mail, Marcus Berkmann, travel diaries
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Waugh, Boyd and Manning
Evelyn Waugh is mentioned several times in an interview of novelist, critic and screenwriter William Boyd published in the Australian Financial Review. The interviewer (Joe Aston) notes that Boyd’s fiction has been compared with Waugh’s from his very first published novel … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television, World War II
Tagged AFR, Daily Mail, Peter Hitchens, William Boyd
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Waugh Anniversary Events Announced
The University of Leicester has announced the details of the first in what will be of a series of events to mark the 50th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s death in 1966. These include a monthly book group session starting on Monday 18 January. This will … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Film
Tagged University of Leicester
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Brideshead Again Named One of Top TV Period Dramas
British internet and cable service provider, BT TV, has issued a list of what it considers the top TV period drama series. Granada’s Brideshead Revisited production for ITV is one of those listed. Among other British productions on BT’s list of the top … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Film
Tagged BT TV
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Death of a Waugh Fan
The papers have announced today the death of singer-songwriter David Bowie (1947-2016). He was just 2 days past his 69th birthday. Bowie was unusually widely read for a popular musician, and one of his fans posted the list of his 100 favorite … Continue reading
Waugh and Post-Christmas Nostalgia
On a website called Blog of a Country Priest, Fr. John Corrigan of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ballarat in Australia recalls a passage from Brideshead Revisited as he takes down the Christmas tree in his parish church: He took out … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism
Tagged Christmas trees
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