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Category Archives: Newspapers
Unloved in LA
William Cash has written a feature length article in the Catholic Herald that provides some new insights into Evelyn Waugh’s 1947 trip to Hollywood. The trip combined an effort to agree film rights with MGM for Brideshead Revisited as well … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Catholic Herald, MGM Studios, William Cash
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MLK Weekend Roundup
—The Tablet has posted an excerpt from Waugh’s novel Helena in recognition of both the Christmas season and the recent publication of that novel as the latest addition (vol. 11) to the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. Here’s the introduction … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Complete Works, Helena, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Clarissa Churchill, Copyright Law, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, The Oldie, The Tablet, William Carey University
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Sword of Honour Reviewed in Italy (More)
Luca Fumagalli has completed his review of Sword of Honour with two installments in subsequent postings on Radio Spada. See previous post for volume 1. The review and summary of second volume Officers and Gentlemen (Ufficiale e Gentiluomini in Italian) … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Sword of Honour, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Luca Fumagalli, Radio Spada, translations
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Sword of Honour Reviewed in Italy
The Italian language religious newspaper Radio Spada has started what will apparently be a multi-article review of Waugh’s war trilogy. This is written by Luca Fumagalli who has written previously in Italian on Waugh’s work. See previous posts. An edited … Continue reading
Posted in Men at Arms, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Luca Fumagalli, Radio Spada
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Year’s End Roundup
–Writing in The Critic, Clive Aslet discusses the decision of the Tate Gallery to close its restaurant in response to its designation as “racist” conferred on the mural of Rex Whistler, which decorates its restaurant. See earlier post. Aslet puts … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Labels, Newspapers, Remote People
Tagged Alan Bennett's Diary, Armenians, Catholic World Report, Keghart.org, London Review of Books, Penguin Classics, The Critic, The Times
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Profile in Hatred: Evelyn Waugh and Robert Byron
Biographer and literary critic Jeffrey Meyers has written a biographical profile of travel writer Robert Byron, with particular reference to the mutual hate – love – hate relationship between Byron and Evelyn Waugh. This appears in the online journal The … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Biographies, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers
Tagged Jeffrey Meyers, Robert Byron, The Article
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The Waugh Before Christmas
Several publication and broadcast media have featured Waugh’s works in their holiday season offerings: –The BBC is going to rebroadcast a 2016 radio program that includes readings from Philip Eade’s biography: Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited. This will be transmitted … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop
Tagged BBC Radio Four Extra, New York Times, Nicholas Grace, Telegraph India, Times Literary Supplement
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Mid-December Roundup
–Posted on the website of the Australian literary journal Quadrant, an article by Mark McGinness marks the 75th anniversary of Nancy Mitford’s novel The Pursuit of Love. This was published on 10 December 1945 about 6 months after Brideshead Revisited … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Letters, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Guardian, Nancy Mitford, New Statesman, Quadrant, The Times, William Boyd
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John le Carré (David Cornwell): 1931-2020 R.I.P.
Novelist John le Carré died last week at the age of 89. Best known for his novels about spies, espionage and governmental bureaucratic intrigue, le Carre’s work would seem to have little in common with that of Evelyn Waugh. Spies … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Guardian, John le Carre, Mark Lawson
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Waugh and Two Noteworthy 1950s Americans
Recent stories feature Waugh’s attitude toward two Americans who rose to popular fame during the 1950s (and in one case descended into infamy). Waugh’s position on each of them is not what one would have expected. The first is described … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged CrimeReads.com, Erle Stanley Gardner, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Joseph McCarthy, The Spectator, TLS, William F Buckley Jr
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