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Category Archives: Newspapers
Lenten Roundup
–Lancing College has announced the details of this year’s Evelyn Waugh Lecture. Here is the announcement: The Head Master, Dr Scott Crawford, requests the pleasure of your company at the Evelyn Waugh Lecture and Annual Foundation Dinner, to be held on Thursday 30 … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Lancing, Lectures, Newspapers
Tagged Guardian, Tablet, The Spectator
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Spectator Compares Waugh Novel to Current BBC Series
The Spectator has an article by Alexander Larman in which he compares the current BBC drama series Industry to Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited. Given the contents of Industry, which follows the careers of several young characters working at a London … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged 'Industry', Alexander Larman, BBC, The Spectator
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Allan Massie (16 October 1938 – 3 February 2026) R.I.P.
Novelist and journalist Allan Massie has died earlier this week. Among his obituaries, several mention a connection of his early fictional works with those of Evelyn Waugh. His son Alexander Massie writes: …His novels … ranged widely. He began with … Continue reading
Two Interesting Waugh Articles
On the same day late last week, two interesting and provocative articles were posted, both of which revolve around Waugh and his fictional characters. The first is entitled “Waugh Warned Us”. It was written by Paul Bauman and appeared in … Continue reading
Roundup: MLK Day (US) Edition
–The Financial Times has an article by Janan Ganesh entitled “The right will want a United States of Europe”. It opens with this: Auberon Waugh, son of the novelist Evelyn, died a quarter of a century ago this month. Never … Continue reading
Roundup: Writers on Waugh
–Two writers have posted a discussion of Waugh’s novel The Loved One. This is on YouTube and involves PhDs Kevin McAleer and Bruce Newsome, each of whom has written a book satirizing California. Here is a description of their talk: … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Helena, Newspapers, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Selina Hastings, The Critic, The Tatler, YouTube
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First-of-the-Year Roundup
—Prospect Magazine has posted an interview of novelist William Boyd by Cosmo Adair. It begins with a discussion of Boyd’s latest novels (several dealing with spies) and proceeds back from that. Here’s an excerpt: …Of all the spy writers, Graham … Continue reading
John Carey: b. 5 April 1935, d. 11 December 2025: R.I.P.
John Carey, former Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford and one of his generation’s most noted literary critics, died last week at the age of 92. His obituary appeared, inter alia, in the Guardian, The Times and the Daily … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Obituaries, Oxford
Tagged Daily Telegraph, John Carey
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Mid-December Roundup
–Charles Moore writes in the Daily Telegraph a critique of the newly issued US National Security Strategy. The article is entitled “Civilisation erasure is real, but Donald Trump is part of the problem,” and opens with this: Amid stiff competition … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Conferences, Decline and Fall, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Martin Stannard, PBK, The Lamp, The Spectator
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Advent-tide Roundup
—The Times has the review (dated 2 Dec.) of a book by Waugh biographer Paula Byrne that may be of interest. Here are the opening paragraphs: In Brideshead Revisited, Charles Ryder remarks that Catholics appear “just like other people”. He is … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers
Tagged New Statesman, The American Spectator, The Times
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