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Category Archives: Newspapers
Italian Biographical Sketch of Waugh
The Italian online religious journal Radio Spada has published a feature-length illustrated article containing a thumbnail biography of Evelyn Waugh. This is by Luca Fumagalli who frequently writes on English literary subjects generally and Waugh specifically in that paper. The … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Biographies, Newspapers
Tagged Luca Fumagalli, Radio Spada
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New Biography by Selina Hastings
The latest issue of TLS has a preview from the new biography by Selina Hastings. In this, she writes of the life and works of novelist Sybille Bedford. Hastings explains in the excerpt that Bedford was raised in Germany in … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Newspapers
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Laura Freeman, Nancy Mitford, Selina Hastings, Sybille Bedford, The Times, TLS
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Halloween Roundup
–There are several reviews this week of William Boyd’s new novel Trio. Waugh is mentioned in some of them. The Guardian’s review opens with this: …Some of his comic writing suggests a kinship with Evelyn Waugh as a farceur of rare … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Mail, Damian McBride, Evesham Journal, Guardian, Lord Bevarbrook, Rosalind Morrison, Standpont, The Scotsman
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War Trilogy: Fake Novels and an Anniversary
In the latest issue of TLS, D J Taylor has written an essay on what he calls “Made-up Stories” or fake novels. What reminded him of the genre (if that’s what it is) was his recent re-reading of Anthony Powell’s … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, Work Suspended, World War II
Tagged Brenthursst Foundation, D.J.Taylor, Daily Maverick, TLS
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A Handful of Reading in the Lockdown
An article in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera addresses the question of why booksales and reading have enjoyed revivals during the Covid 19 lockdowns. This is by Alessandro Piperno and portions are translated below: …Personally I am grateful to … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Newspapers
Tagged Alessandro Piperno, Corriere della Sera
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Roundup: From Goldfinger to What’s Become of Waring?
–The Guardian has announced the death earlier this month of actress Margaret Nolan (1943-2020). She had …a noticeable role in the Beatles film A Hard Day’s Night (as the girl accompanying Wilfrid Brambell in a casino), and the James Bond … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Guardian, Harpers Magazine, Margaret Nolan, New Statesman, P.G.Wodehouse, The Critic, The Quarterly Review, William Boyd, William Gaddis
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Muggeridge Anniversary
The National Review has posted both print and audio versions of an article in which M D Aeschliman notes the upcoming 30th anniversary of Malcolm Muggeridge’s death. It opens with this: Malcolm Muggeridge died 30 years ago and had so … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Malcolm Muggeridge, National Review
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Peregrine Worsthorne 1923-2020: RIP
Noted 20th century journalist Peregrine Worsthorne has died at the age of 97. He was an admirer and chronicler of the aristocracy. Waugh shared some of his admiration but also satirized the upper classes. In Worsthorne’s case, he was more … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Peregrine Worsthorne, The Independent
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Roundup: Censorship and Adaptation
–There has been a colloquy in the provincial British press about racist language in Evelyn Waugh’s 1932 novel Black Mischief. This was begun in an article or letter by Michael O’Neill of Penarth that was reproduced from the Western Mail. … Continue reading
Conversion Anniversary
The American Spectator, a conservative journal, has an article by Tom Raabe marking the 90th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s conversion to Roman Catholicism on 29 September 1930. Raabe remarks that, at first, the conversion did not have much impact on … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers
Tagged American Spectator, Tom Raabe
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