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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Waugh Things First
The religion and public policy journal First Things has posted two articles with discussions of works written by Evelyn Waugh: –The first is a review of a novel by Randy Boyagoda entitled Original Prin that has been described as a … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Basil Seal Rides Again, Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged artzy.net, First Things, Spectator
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Book List Roundup: Wuhan Virus Edition
The unfilled hours produced by the disruptions of the Wuhan virus seem to call for more reading and, thus, have apparently inspired the compiling and posting of book lists. Several of these include books by Evelyn Waugh: –The Milwaukee Magazine … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Vile Bodies, When the Going Was Good
Tagged Book Lists, Catholic Herald, Daily Telegraph, Esquire, Forbes, Milwaukee Magazine, Russell Baker
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Brideshead Reviewed in Credo Magazine
The latest issue of the online quarterly religious journal Credo Magazine is devoted to the theme The Truth Inside the Lie: Theology through Fiction. Several novels are discussed in some detail. One of these is Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited which is … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Credo Magazine, Timothy Larsen
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Beaton Exhibit Opens at NPG
The much-mentioned exhibition of Cecil Beaton’s photgraphic record of the Bright Young People of the 1920s opens today at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Waugh’s biographer Selina Hastings has written a review for the current issue of Tatler. It … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Events, Interviews, London, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Cecil Beaton, Ferdinand Mount, Guardian, Henry Lamb, Londonist, Robin Muir, Selina Hastings, Southby's, Tatler, The Oldie, The Times
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Roundup: Satire in a Divisive Age
—The Times last week carried an opinion article by James Marriott in which he welcomed the announcement that the political satire TV series Spitting Image will return to the screen. But he wonders whether, in the current age of divisive … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Gentleman's Journal, Hannah Rothschild, RTV Slovenija, Satire, The Lady, The Times, TLS, Town & Country, Will Self
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Bright Young People Re-illuminated
There are several stories in the press about the “Bright Young People” inspired by next Thursday’s opening of the Cecil Beaton exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery mentioned in several previous posts. The most interesting of these is by Hugo … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Events, London, Newspapers, Photographs, Vile Bodies
Tagged Cecil Beaton, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, National Portrait Gallery
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The Resurfacing of Robert Byron
Robert Byron has appeared at the Castle Howard Brideshead Festival–at least on Duncan McLaren’s website. In his latest posting, McLaren arranges that Nancy Mitford, a close friend of both Evelyn Waugh and Robert Byron, engages in an extended conversation with … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Festivals
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Nancy Mitford, Robert Byron
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Waugh and Pre-Raphaelites at Yale
The New Criterion’s website has posted an article about an exhibit at the Yale Center for British Art entitled “Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement”. The article is written by Stephen Schmalhofer and opens with this: … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Events, Newspapers, Rossetti: His Life and Works
Tagged New Criterion, Stephen Schmalhofer, Yale Center for British Art
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Waugh Appears in Vatican Document Release
The Vatican recently released a large quantity of documentary archives that cover the period at the end of WWII. It is not surprising that much of the press comment on these documents relates to their reflection on the attitude of … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Letters, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Pope Pius XII, Vatican, Yugoslavia
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Humor Books in the News
The Spectator has reposted a review from December 2005 by biographer and literary critic Bevis Hillier of the third edition of Ned Sherrin’s Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations. He had some reservations about the earlier editions as being overly inclusive but … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Bevis Hillier, Sam Leith, The Spectator
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