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Category Archives: Newspapers
Flag Day Roundup
–Author Irvine Welsh (best known for his novel Trainspotting) was interviewed in advance of an appearance at the Beyond the Pale Festival at Wicklow, Ireland, 10-12 June. This appeared in the Irish Examiner. Here’s an excerpt: I’ve always admired writers … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall, First Editions, Items for Sale, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Daily Mail, Irish Examiner, Irvine Welsh, John Atkinson Books, Malcolm Muggeridge, Protean Magazine, The New Republic
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Waugh, the Stirling Brothers and the SAS
The Daily Mail has posted an article from the Mail on Sunday by Gavin Mortimer about his new book The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS. This is about David Stirling, a WWII … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Bill Stirling, David Stirling, Gavin Mortimer, Mail on Sunday, The Courier {Perth & Kinross)
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Memorial Day Roundup
–The Atlantic Monthly has reposted its issue for September 1956. This contains Waugh’s article entitled “Max Beerbohm: A Lesson in Manners”. This was a reprint of the article that had earlier appeared in the Sunday Times. It was a memorial … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford, Radio Programs, Scoop, Television
Tagged BBC, Gavin Millar, Newsmax, Oxford Mail, Penguin Books, The Atlantic Monthly, The Times
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Roundup: Mostly Books
—The Times has an article describing a re-reading of Henry Green’s peculiar 1939 novel Party Going. This is by Claire Alltree and opens with this: I think of Henry Green’s 1939 novel every time I walk across Victoria station, which … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Internet, Newspapers
Tagged Current Affairs, Henry Green, LitHub.com, Slightly Foxed, The Daily Star (Dhaka), The Times, V S Naipaul
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Smallbeer, the Professor and Waugh
D J Taylor writing in the current issue of The Critic describes how Professor Barry Mole managed to eke a career out of the works of the largely forgotten 1930s poet Esme Smallbeer. This is the latest entry in his … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged D.J.Taylor, The Critic
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Two Essays: Orwell’s Comic Novels and Waugh’s Oxford
There are two well written and interesting essays this week relating to Waugh. The first is by Jonathan Clarke and appears in the quarterly City Journal. This is entitled “Orwell’s Humor” and relates mainly to his two 1930s comic novels … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Fiction, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged City Journal, Daisy Dunn, George Orwell, Jonathan Clarke, The Oldie
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Mid-May Roundup
—The Guardian, apparently in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the serialized publication of Waugh’s diaries, has posted a brief introduction by Chris Hall. Here’s an excerpt: The year 1973 saw a big serialisation of the private diaries of Evelyn … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Diaries, Internet, Newspapers
Tagged CrimeReads.com, E M Forster, Stuff.co.nz, The Guardian, The Press (Yorkshire), The Scotsman
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Mother’s Day Roundup
–Nicholas Lezard writing in the New Statesman calls on Basil Seal to explain why asparagus (now coming into season in northerly climates) is the most sexy vegetable: … like all things sexy, it trembles on the edge of exploitation. In … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Oxford, Put Out More Flags, Translations
Tagged Asparagus, Bloomsbury Academic, Crisis magazine, New Statesman, The Oxford Student, TLS
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Toffs Floribundi: Costume Drama, Oxford and Brexit
–On the occasion on the release of a new Downton Abbey film, The Times has devoted several articles to the costume drama as a genre. These begin with Robert Crampton defining the genre. From his perspective, a costume drama must … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Internet, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Simon Kuper, The Times, UnHerd.com
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