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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
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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Academia x 2: Pinfold’s Voices and Waugh’s Propaganda
–A recent academic article about Waugh’s postwar novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold has been posted on the internet. This is entitled “Hearing Voices: The Extended Mind in Evelyn Waugh’s The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold” and is by Yuexi Liu, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Put Out More Flags, Sword of Honour, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Guy Woodward, Modernist Cultures, The Review of English Studies, Yuexi Liu
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BBC Radio 4 to Rebroadcast A Handful of Dust
Tne BBC will rebroadcast its two hour, two episode radio adaptation of A Handful of Dust. This will be transmitted on BBC Radio 4 Extra on Thursday, 24 February at 1000a and will be available thereafter on BBC iPlayer. Here … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Radio
Tagged BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Roundup: End it with a Waugh
–An opinion article in The Times by Matthew Parris considers the actions that will be taken on the part of Tory politicians seeking to replace Boris Johnson as their leader. Their different political placements call for different tactics. But the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Irish Times, New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Imaginative Conservative, The Spctator, The Times
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Academic Roundup: 2020-2021
The following articles and reviews have appeared in academic journals for the period 2020-21 (2019 in one case) and have not been previously posted. The summaries of articles come (except as noted) from an academic library search service and those … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Articles, Decline and Fall, Put Out More Flags, Vile Bodies
Tagged Naomi Milthorpe
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