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Category Archives: Newspapers
Waugh and the Small, Cornered Creature (more)
In a previous post, we discussed a quote attributed to Evelyn Waugh in an unsigned Private Eye book review about a new collection of stories by James Kelman. A search turned up the quote as having first appeared in a … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Private Eye
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First Complete Works Volumes Published
The first four volumes of Evelyn Waugh’s Complete Works have been published by Oxford University Press. Alexander Waugh is interviewed on BBC Radio 4 in yesterday’s edition of World at One in connection with this event. The interview is by … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Diaries, Interviews, Newspapers, Oxford, Radio Programs, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC Radio 4, David Sexton, Evening Standard, Luke Jones, World at One
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Rex Mottram Redux
In his American Conservative magazine weblog, Senior Editor Rod Dreher has cited Waugh’s character Rex Mottram from Brideshead Revisited in connection with recent actions of President Trump. Dreher had previously adopted the term “Mottramism,” originally coined by Canadian Blogger, Mark Cameron, who … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Mark Cameron, Mottramism, Rod Dreher, The American Conservative
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The Fruit of Whispering Glades
The TLS has published an article marking the centenary of the birth of Jessica Mitford, sister of Waugh’s friends Nancy, Diana and Deborah. The story (“Happy 100th Birthday, Decca”) is by Mark McGinness who has also recently written about Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Jessica Mitford, Mark McGinness, TLS
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Waugh and the Small, Cornered Creature
Private Eye (8-21 September) cites Waugh in its review (“Doesnae land”) of James Kelman’s collected stories That Was a Shiver. This comes after reminding readers that in the early 1990s Kelman was the “hippest cat on the block.” One critic … Continue reading
Vile Politics
Heather Wilhelm writing in National Review has noticed that several commentators have been making the analogy between present national politics and professional wrestling. You can best explain what’s happening by remembering that, like a professional wrestler (who isn’t so much … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Heather Wilhelm, National Review, professional wrestling
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George Smiley and Basil Seal
The Evening Standard has reviewed John Le Carre’s latest novel A Legacy of Spies in which he revives his old characters from the George Smiley novels. The reviewer David Sexton has this observation about the pitfalls of this practice: Often it … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Basil Seal Rides Again, Discussions, Labels, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Evening Standard, John le Carre, New York University, Paula Byrne, Sir Arthur Evans, The Oldie
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Waughs and the Bat Colony
Late last month in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, we posted a message about the Waugh Drive Bridge in Houston and its bat colony. Patrick Kurp, who maintains a weblog called “Anecdotal Evidence” and lives in Houston, has provided the … Continue reading
Danish Journal Publishes Waugh Article
The Danish cultural journal Critique has published for the first time the full version of an essay on Waugh’s life and work written in 2009. This is entitled “Evelyn Waughs korstog mod moderniteten” (“Evelyn Waugh’s Crusade Against Modernity”) and is summarized … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Robbery Under Law, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged Crtique, Soren Besenbacher
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