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Category Archives: Newspapers
Roundup: Whigs, Scribblers, Converts and Teddy Bears
–In a recent Wall Street Journal there is a review of a new book by Jeremy Black entitled Charting the Past. This is a consideration of English history as described by historians of the 18th Century. It begins with this quote … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged FaithandCulture.com, Guardian, Norwich Evening News, Sunday Telegraoh, T S Eliot, The Spectator, Wall Street Journal
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Russell Baker 1925-2019
Russell Baker, one of America’s leading journalists in the last half of the 20th Century, has died at the age of 93. He was best known as a reporter and columnist for the New York Times. But he got his … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Interviews, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged baltimore, Russell Baker
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Roundup: Daleks and Poputchiks
–The BBC has announced plans to issue a print version of a 1980s Dr Who episode that contains a plot line inspired by Waugh’s novel The Loved One. This is explained on a website that tracks this sort of thing (BleedingCool.com) … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television Programs, The Loved One
Tagged BBC, Dr Who, Guardian, San Diego Reader, University Challenge
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Mitford and Merton and Waugh
—The London Magazine has published on its website a copy of Evelyn Waugh’s 1960 review of Nancy Mitford’s last novel Don’t Tell Alfred: While looking through our archive recently we came across this review by Evelyn Waugh of Nancy Mitford’s … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers
Tagged America: The Jesuit Review, Mary Gordon, Nancy Mitford, The London Magazine, Thomas Merton
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Waugh in Lithuania
A Lithuanian online newspaper Bernardinai.lt has a review of the Lithuanian translation of Vile Bodies (Vargingi kūnai). This is an alternative online newspaper published by the Franciscan community in Vilnius but intended to be objective rather than primarily religious in … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Bernardinai.lt, Lithuanian translations
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Auberon Waugh (More)
Additional reviews of the new collection of Auberon Waugh’s writings (A Scribbler in Soho) are becoming available. The book was released earlier this week. Prof John Carey writing in the latest edition of the Sunday Times describes the contents as … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Collections, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged John Carey, Naim Attallah, Roger Lewis, Sunday Times, The Times
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Roundup: The Walrus and the Waugh Scholars
–Duncan McLaren has added a new article to his Evelyn Waugh website relating to three of the first volumes of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Precocious Waughs (v.30), Essays, Articles and Reviews 1922-1934 (v.26), and A Little Learning (v.19). He … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Complete Works, Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Newspapers, Work Suspended
Tagged Catholic Herald, Duncan McLaren, Literary Hub, Marcel Proust, The Tatler
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Auberon Waugh “Celebrated” in New Book
A new book composed of writings by Auberon Waugh has been compiled by Naim Attallah and published by his Quartet Books as A Scribbler in Soho. This will be released in the UK on 24 January and is reviewed in … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Collections, Newspapers
Tagged Christopher Howse, Daily Telegraph, Naim Attallah, The Oldie
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Martin D’Arcy, Art Collector
The magazine America: The Jesuit Review has a feature article in its current issue about Waugh’s friend Martin D’Arcy, SJ. This is by Altair Brandon-Salmon and focuses on Fr D’Arcy’s art collecting talents as reflected in his several acquisitions displayed … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Catholicism, Collections, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged America: The Jesuit Journal, Campion Hall, Fr. Martin D'Arcy
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