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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
New Book on Interwar Oxford
Weidenfeld and Nicolson have announced the publication later this month of a new book about interwar Oxford. This is by Daisy Dunn and is entitled Not Far From Brideshead. Here’s the publisher’s description: Oxford thought it was at war. And … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Oxford
Tagged Daisy Dunn, Selina Hastings, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Neglected 1930s Classic Republished
A long-neglected 1937 novel by American writer Herbert Clyde Lewis has been republished and is reviewed in this week’s TLS. The book is entitled Gentleman Overboard and is reviewed by Ian Thomson. The review (entitled “A Yalie All at Sea”) … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Newspapers
Tagged Herbert Clyde Lewis, Night and Day, TLS
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The Loved One in Italy
A review of The Loved One has appeared in the Italian language religious website Radio Spada. This is by Luca Fumagalli who has been working his way through Waugh’s oeuvre as well as that of his contemporaries. This latest installment … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Radio Spada
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Partygate Roundup
–An article posted on the website The Conversation,com has attracted a lot of attention since it appeared last week. This is entitled “Partygate Revisited” and is written by Trinity College Dublin senior research scholar Orlaith Darling. She begins with a … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Events, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Jeffrey Meyers, New York Times, Spiked.com, The Article, The Critic, University of Nottingham
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Waugh in Translation
Adelphi Edizioni, an Italian publishing company, has announced the publication of an Italian translation of Waugh’s 1952 book The Holy Places. This was previously issued as a separate book by Ian Fleming’s Queen Ann Press in identical UK and US … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Labels, The Holy Places, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Adelphi Edizioni, Icelandic translation, Italian translations, Ugla
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Washington’s Birthday Roundup
–In the TLS, backpage columnist M.C. is reminded of the BBC television quiz show Take It or Leave It. Devised by Brigid Brophy, this quiz show ran from 1964 until 1971 on BBC Two. “Preference and prejudice towards books and … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television Programs, The Loved One
Tagged BBC, comedy.co.uk, Evening Standard, Hanya Yanagihara, MercatorNet.com, Michael Mills, New Yorker, Particia Lockwood, The Critic, TLS
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Waugh Abroad: Firbank and Scoop
Two foreign language journals have recently reviewed works of Waugh. The first is in the Italian religious website Radio Spada. In that essay, Luca Fumagalli reviews an early essay by Waugh on Ronald Firbank that appeared in a 1929 issue … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Diario Sanitario, Luca Fumagalli, Radio Spada
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Modernism’s Centenary Marked: Essay and Lecture
There have been several stories in the papers recently about the major events in the history of modern literature that occurred in 1922. A recent article by John Self in The Critic magazine does an excellent job of bringing them … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, A Little Learning, Academia, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Lectures, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, John Self, Modernism, T S Eliot Society, The Critic, The Waste Land, University of Leicester
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P J O’Rourke 1947-2022 R.I.P.
American satirist P J O’Rourke died earlier this week at the age of 74. He made his name as a conservative commentator but was an equal opportunity satirist. For example, according to the obituary in the Washington Post, he once … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged New York Times, P J O'Rourke, Spiked, Washington Post
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