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Category Archives: Newspapers
Early December Roundup
–The Sydney Morning Herald reviews Salman Rushdie’s latest book (probably referring to The Eleventh Hour). The review is by Australian literary critic Peter Craven and is headed: “Unsurprisingly, death is a recurring theme in Salman Rushdie.” It contains some mention … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Obituaries, Scoop
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, First Things, Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald
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Thanksgiving (USA) Roundup
–The New York Review of Books has reviewed a book by Kit Kowol entitled Blue Jerusalem. The review by Ferdinand Mount is entitled “Flipping Britain’s Postwar Script.” Here’s the opening: Controlling the narrative is the name of the game now. … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Daily Mail, New York Review of Books, Russian translations
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David Pryce-Jones (1936-2025) R.I.P.
The death earlier this week of writer and journalist David Pryce-Jones has been announced in the Peerage News. He is best known to our readers as the editor of the 1973 collection Evelyn Waugh and His World. This is noted … Continue reading
Converts, Universities and an Anniversary
–A review by Frances Wilson in The Spectator discusses a recent book by Melanie McDonagh. This is entitled Converts. It may have been mentioned in previous postings. Here is an excerpt from the opening paragraphs: …The 12 conversions explored by … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Articles, Newspapers
Tagged Harpers Magazine, The Spectator
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Armistice Day Roundup
–In a recent issue of Irish Times, Waugh came up in multiple stories. In a review of Elizabeth Day’s novel One of Us, the Times’ reviewer begins by noting that she …deploys one of fiction’s most reliable formulas. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Daily Mail, Irish Times, The Times, Vanity Fair
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Roundup: Vileness Revisited
—William Cash writing in The Times newspaper recalls a Hollywood expat group from the 1990s that was called “the Viles” (at least by him) and explains why Ghislaine Maxwell failed to fit in. Here are some excerpts from his article: … Continue reading
Evelyn Waugh’s Birthday: 28 October 1903
Several papers have noted Waugh’s birthday. The Sunday Times earlier this week has even offered up a sort of present. This is a new book that contains new stories in which the P G Wodehouse character Jeeves is prominently featured. … Continue reading
Halloween Roundup
–A new biography of Oscar Wilde has been issued. This is After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal by his grandson Merlin Holland. It is reviewed in Literary Review by Thomas W Hodgkinson who summarizes it as describing the unique … Continue reading
Roundup: Cigars, Paula Byrne and The Latin Mass
–The Evening Standard newspaper has published an article about a noted shop on St James’s Street. This is J J Fox and the product they have on offer is cigars. After a discussion of their history, in which it is … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Internet, Newspapers
Tagged Cigars, Latin Mass, Paula Byrne
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Octoberfest Roundup
–The scripts of the TV series “All Creatures Great and Small” are being posted on the internet. Here’s an excerpt from an episode from the final series (No. 6) in which one of the vets is being introduced to a … Continue reading
