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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
A New Voice in Catholic America
The Catholic Herald has announced that it will soon begin publishing a weekly edition in the USA. In discussing this decision, William Cash, chairman of the Herald, takes the opportunity to consider the journal’s past accomplishments in the UK: Throughout … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged America. The Jesuir Review, Catholic Herald, Catholic novel
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Brexit, Cameron and Ivor Claire
Dominic Green, who recently wrote an essay about Waugh’s military career (see previous post), has now written a report about the march of 700,000 people in London last weekend demanding a “People’s Vote” on Brexit. The story appears in the … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, World War II
Tagged Brexit, David Pryce-Jones, Dominic Green, Spectator, Weekly Standard
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Waugh and the Buggers’ Baroque
The current TLS has a review of a book by Jane Stevenson entitled Baroque Between the Wars: Alternative style in the arts, 1918–1939. The reviewer Michael Hall seems to have enjoyed the book because of its period and subject matter … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged architecture (1930s), Campion Hall, Jane Stevenson, THE, TLS
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Literary Criticism Gets Reviewed
In the current issue of Commonweal magazine, novelist and critic William Giraldi is interviewed by the magazine’s book columnist Anthony Domestico. Giraldi’s collection of essays and criticism American Audacity was publshed earlier this year. After a wide- ranging discussion of … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Commonweal, Francoise Gilot, Literary Criticism, Literary Hub, New York Times, Pablo Picasso
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Roundup: Foreign Press
–In the German paper Die Welt, there is a short review of Brideshead Revisited (in German Wiedersehen mit Brideshead) by Denis Schenk. After quoting from the novel how Charles and Sebastian come to be acquainted, the article continues: There is … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Waugh Family
Tagged Carlos Villar Flor, Diario Cordoba, Die Welt, Radio Spada, Spanish Civil War
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Paula Byrne to Lecture at the NPG
The Jane Austen’s House Museum has announced a lecture that may be of interest to our readers. This is the T Edward Carpenter Memorial Lecture: “Jane Austen and the English Comic Tradition” by Dr Paula Byrne at the National Portrait … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Autographs, Evelyn Waugh Society, Lectures, London
Tagged Jane Austen's House Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Paula Byrne
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Mid-October Roundup
–The US cable channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has announced two broadcasts of The Loved One in November and December. They have also published what look like they may be expanded program notes (by Jeff Stafford) for the occasion: In … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Daily Mail, Guyana Times International, longreads.com, Room of Joy, The Scotsman, The Times, Turner Classic Movies
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Incomplete Works
The Oxford University Press commissioned a review of three early volumes of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh from its sister publication Essays in Criticism. A review of these volumes (Vile Bodies, Precocious Waughs, and Rossetti) has been ably written by … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Diaries, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Vile Bodies
Tagged Deposit Libraries, Essays in Criticism, Lisa Mullen, Oxford University Press
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Charm Offensive
In the Wall Street Journal a review by Thomas Vinciguerra of Joseph Epstein’s new book Charm: The Elusive Enchantment begins with this: There was no avoiding it. On page 26 of Joseph Epstein’s excursion into the nature of charm, there … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Letters, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged BBC, Bullingdon Club, Charm, Daily Mail, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Wall Street Journal
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Literary Reputations in the Brexit Era
The Spectator has a review by Rod Liddle of the play People Like Us at the Union Theater in South London. It is written by Julie Burchill and Jane Robins and relates to a North London book group that is … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, London, Newspapers, Theater
Tagged Julie Burchill, Rod Liddle, The Spectator
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