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Category Archives: Newspapers
Needing a Laugh? Another List
In a recent issue of The Times, their comedy critic Dominic Maxwell recommends a list of 10 books which he hopes will make readers laugh, as did he when he read them. Here’s the recommendation for one by Evelyn Waugh: … Continue reading
Easter Roundup: Reading Waugh in a Time of Self-Isolation
–An article in National Review relates mainly to Alessandro Manzoni’s 1840 novel in Italian The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi). This is by M D Aeschliman who explains the popularity of the 700 page work among his University of Virginia students … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Audiobooks, Brideshead Revisited, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Sword of Honour
Tagged Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, National Review, The Independent, The Spectator, ThePublicDiscourse.com
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Mexico Revisited: Waugh, Greene and Theroux
Travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux recently published a travel book about an automobile trip to Mexico. This is entitled On the Plain of SnakesĀ and is reviewed in the digital academic magazine PublicBooks.org by Ignacio Sanchez-Prado, professor of Latin American … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Robbery Under Law
Tagged Graham Greene, Ignacio Sanchez-Prado, Mexico, Paul Theroux, PublicBooks.org
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Pre-Easter Roundup
–Roger Lewis has posted another reading list for the current epidemic. This is in the Daily Mail and is entitled “Keep laughing and read on.” Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop is among those recommended: William Boot, who contributes nature columns on … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Australian Financial News, Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Guardian, L'Officiel, Ralph Lauren, Southern Utah University, TLS
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Waugh and the Marquesses of Bath
The 7th Marquess of Bath (1932-2020) died last Saturday. His name was Alexander Thynn, and he was the son of parents, both of whom were friends of Evelyn Waugh dating back to his Oxford and Bright Young People days. The … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Daphne Fielding, Marquess of Bath
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A Handful of Dust on BBC Radio 4
The BBC will rebroadcast a 1996 two-hour adaptation of Waugh’s 1934 novel A Handful of Dust. According to the Daily Mail Weekend Magazine radio listings: The critics gave the thumbs down to this Evelyn Waugh novel when it was published … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail, National Review
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Waugh Podcasts
The quarterly literary magazine Slightly Foxed has announced that its next podcast will be devoted to Evelyn Waugh. This will be posted on their website, probably on 15 April. Details such as topics, participants, time, etc. do not seem to … Continue reading
Posted in Complete Works, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Television Programs, Waugh Family
Tagged Aubrey Beardsley, BBC, Daily Mail, Slightly Foxed
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The Brideshead Effect
In an article primarily devoted to the new Julian Fellowes dramatic series Belgravia that started a few weeks ago on ITV, The Herald (Scotland) also considers the effect successful costume dramas may have beyond the world of entertainment. As its … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Adamah Media, Cherwell, Coutts, Gentleman's Journal, Harper's Bazaar, InsideHook.com, The Herald (Scotland), Vogue, Winnipeg Free Press
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Waugh’s Collage
In a recent article in the Indian paper National Herald, reporter Mrinal Pande refers to a collage created by Evelyn Waugh in 1935 which is mentioned without citation in the writings of Graham Greene. This is in an article entitled … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Letters, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers
Tagged collage, Graham Greene, Mrinal Pande, National Herald (India)
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Roundup: Wavian Humour When it is Sorely Needed
–Duncan McLaren has posted a new article in a section of his weblog denominated “Waugh Bites” where one can find miscellaneous articles about various unconnected topics. The new posting is entitled “The Legs Have It”. This posits that two leg … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers, PRB, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Duncan McLaren, Irish Times, Jewish News, The Times
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