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Category Archives: Newspapers
Roundup: Labels Reattached
–The weblog Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings contains a review of Waugh’s early travel book Labels. This is a thoughtful critique of an often overlooked book: This is certainly no saccharine account of a trip round pretty places; if Waugh dislikes a … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Labels, Newspapers
Tagged Catholic Truth Society, Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings, National Catholic Register, The Oldie, TLS
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Waugh and Mitford: Grave Problems
Waugh’s friend Nancy Mitford is in the news relating to the publication in the USA of her biography by Laura Thompson, Life in a Cold Climate. See previous posts. The Wall Street Journal (10 January 2020) has a favorable review by … Continue reading
Posted in Combe Florey, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged graveyards, Laura Thompson, LitHub.com, Nancy Mitford, Wall Street Journal
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John Ivan Simon (1925-2019): R. I. P.
John Simon, one of America’s great critics of theatre and film died in November the age of 94. His death was widely noted, and this obituary excerpted from the New York Times is fairly representative: In a style that danced … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged John Simon, New York Times, Tablet Magazine
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New Year’s Roundup
–On his weblog Anecdotal Evidence, Patrick Kurp has a posting that quotes and summarizes Waugh’s New Year’s article for Harper’s Bazaar, dated 9 January 1934. Here’s an excerpt: […] Waugh shifts between the personal and national. He had spent the first … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Ronald Knox
Tagged Anecdotal Evidence, Cherwell, Houston, Radio Spada
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Waugh’s New Year’s Eve 1947
The Herald (Glasgow) has a story about Scottish New Year celebrations (known as Hogmanay) that starts with this reference to an Evelyn Waugh novel. THERE’S a wonderful line about Hogmanay in Evelyn Waugh’s classic 1948 novel, The Loved One. Dennis Barlow, … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Hogmanay, The Herald (Glasgow)
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The Oxford Novel (more)
In a recent post, we considered a discussion of novelist William Boyd about “the Oxford novel” (as well as well as other novels associated with particular cities). More recently, a new literary periodical–the Oxford Review of Books–has taken up the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged John Phipp, Oxford Review of Books, Philip Larkin
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General Election Roundup
Waugh is cited recently in news reports relating to the Conservative Party’s victory in last week’s general election: –In the Sunday Times, Andrew Gimson, author of the book Boris, The Making of a Prime Minister, writes of Johnson’s ability to … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Catholic World Report, General Election, margarine, MENAFN.com, The Economist, The Sunday Times
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TLS: Cities and Writers/Officers and Novelists
A few weeks ago, the TLS published an article by novelist William Boyd (“Footless giant: A visit to Kafka’s Prague”) about his recent trip to that city. It opens with this: …it being Prague, my thoughts turn almost instantly to … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Oxford, World War II
Tagged David Piper, Franz Kafka, Sean O'Brien, TLS, Trieste, William Boyd
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Roundup: Connolly’s Choristers
–The London Review of Books in its latest edition has as one of its articles a review of D J Taylor’s Lost Girls. See previous posts. This is by Ysenda Maxtone Graham. Here is an excerpt: There’s a hilarious sort … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Television Programs
Tagged Horizon magazine, London Review of Books, Mental Floss, Metroland, NBC, The Millions
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