Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh

A Buyer’s Market for Quennell and Connolly

Posted on August 3, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

Duncan McLaren has aded another article about Evelyn Waugh’s interest in Anthony Powell’s novel cycle Dance to the Music of Time. In this one, Evelyn and Nancy Mitford continue their discussion of Powell’s books, focussing on the second in the … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s Good Read on BBC

Posted on August 2, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

BBC Radio 4 has rebroadcast earlier today a 2010 episode of their series A Good Read where a moderator and two guests discuss a book each of them has chosen. In this episode the moderator Sue MacGregor chooses Waugh’s 1930s … Continue reading →

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End-of-July Roundup

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

—The Economist magazine’s 1843 section has an article by Catherine Nixey entitled: “The death of nostalgia”. It is subtitled: “People used to pine for a simpler life. Now they’ve got it – and it’s not all it’s cracked up to … Continue reading →

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A Handful of Offense

Posted on July 28, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

Writing in the Catholic Herald, novelist and critic Philip Hensher considers the implications of the current movement to suppress or destroy monuments and other public expressions that give offense to the present generation. This is in an article entitled: “Many … Continue reading →

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Caveat Lector

Posted on July 27, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Kenyon Review posts another article by writer Aatif Rashid about re-reading  Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited: In a piece last month, I wrote about my admiration for Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. [See previous post.] But my experience reading it was actually more … Continue reading →

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Another Spanish Review of Wine in Peace and War

Posted on July 26, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

A few weeks after the appearance of an article about Waugh’s Wine in Peace and War appeared in a regional Spanish paper, another article has appeared in the Canary Islands. This is by Luis M Alonso and is entitled “El … Continue reading →

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Apthorpe and Widmerpool

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

In Duncan McLaren’s latest posting, Anthony Powell joins the host of other writer friends of Evelyn Waugh who are either posthumously present or talked about at the recently postponed Castle Howard conference. In this case, Powell and several of his … Continue reading →

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Helena Reviewed in Italian

Posted on July 20, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Italian religious news website Radio Spada has published a review of Waugh’s novel Helena.  An Italian translation of the novel was published as Elena: la madre dell’imperatore in 2002, but this review is not related to that publication, aside from … Continue reading →

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Bastille Day Roundup

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

—The Australian newspaper’s “Media Watch Dog” column cites its previous mention of Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop where the snobbery of the leftie journalist Pappenhacker was revealed. Waugh’s line was that a wealthy communist university-educated chap named Pappenhacker believed that the best … Continue reading →

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Brideshead and Loving (More)

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

Duncan McLaren has just posted an interesting comparison between the two 1945 novels: Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited and Henry Green’s Loving. This is quite different from the shorter Daily Telegraph article reported in a previous post. Duncan presents the comparison as … Continue reading →

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