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Category Archives: Newspapers
Waugh Echoes in Kevin Kwan Trilogy
Singapore-born novelist Kevin Kwan has just completed a trilogy of comic novels which began with Crazy Rich Asians in 2013. According to the Seattle Times, the trilogy is set among three intergenerational and ultrarich Chinese families and peppered with hilarious … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Crazy Rich People Trilogy, Daily O, Kevin Kwan, Seattle Times, The Metro, Toronto Star, Victoria "Plum" Sykes
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Stephen Fry Film Compared to Waugh
The Daily Mirror in a review of the film adaptation of Stephen Fry’s 1994 novel The Hippopotamus describe it as a “mildly successful hybrid of a film noir detective story and the novels of Evelyn Waugh.” They don’t much like what … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Film, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Television, Vile Bodies
Tagged Acorn TV, Anglotopia.net, Artforum, Daily Mirror, Ernst Lubitsch, Stephen Fry
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Waugh and the African Railways
The Sueddeutsche Zeitung published in Munich has a feature story (“Afrika-Express”) by Bernd Doerries about the expansion of the railway networks in East Africa financed by the Chinese. Most recently, this involves the opening of a new line in Kenya from … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Remote People
Tagged Bernd Doerries, East Africa, railways, Sueddeutsche Zeitung
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Waugh Ear Trumpet to be Displayed in Glastonbury
BBC Radio Somerset has interviewed the director of the South West Heritage Trust which recently acquired one of Evelyn Waugh’s ear trumpets. This is Tom Mayberry who is interviewed by Radio Somerset’s Charlie Taylor. Mayberry explains that the ear trumpet is intended to … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Interviews, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC Radio Somerset, Church of St Edward the Confessor Kempley, ear trumpet, Hereford Times, Lygon family, Somerset Rural Life Museum, South West Heritage Trust, Tom Mayberry
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Betjeman Play in West End
The one-man play with Edward Fox portraying John Betjeman (“Sand in the Sandwiches”) opened its brief West End performance earlier this week at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. The play premiered earlier this year in Oxford. See previous post. It is reviewed … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Newspapers, The Loved One, Theater
Tagged Guardian, John Betjeman, Out magazine, Sunday Express, Turner Classic Films
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Trump, Harry Potter, and Waugh
Sonny Bunch writing in the Washington Post has noticed that opponents of Donald Trump seem to have become fixated on the literary world created by the Harry Potter novels. After Trump’s election: the Potternistas gnashed their teeth and rent their garments, … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop, Twitter
Tagged Donald Trump, Harry Potter, Sonny Bunch, Washington Post
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Waugh and the RAF
Foreign Policy magazine is publishing excerpts from a new book by Thomas Ricks entitled Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom. The latest installment discusses the RAF pilots who prevented a German invasion in the Battle of Britain and who were predominantly … Continue reading
Posted in Men at Arms, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, World War II
Tagged Battle of Britain, Foreign Policy, RAF, Thomas Ricks
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W G Sebald, Comic Novelist?
In a long article in the latest edition of the New Yorker, Anglo-American literary scholar and critic James Wood (not to be confused with the scriptwriter of the same name who wrote BBC’s recent adaptation of Decline and Fall) tries … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged James Wood, New Yorker, W G Sebald
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General Election, Water Voles, and Nothing
A local news website in Kent has introduced Evelyn Waugh as an issue in the ongoing UK General Election. Kent Online has compiled a list of candidates for the seat in the Folkestone and Hythe constituency, with a thumbnail sketch provided … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Letters, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged General Election, Hanif Kureishi, Henry Green, Kent Online, Private Eye, The Times, water voles
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