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Category Archives: World War II
Radiohead Musician A Waugh Fan
In a recent Guardian interview, Radiohead lead guitarist Johnny Greenwood named Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour as his favorite audiobook. He says he was introduced to Waugh’s work by reading Clive James, who he credits with helping him complete his … Continue reading
Posted in Audiobooks, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Clive James, Guardian, Johnny Greenwood, Radiohead
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Crouchbackian Undercurrents Seen in Australian Novel
A recent Australian novel tells the story of a soldier who suffered through the British evacuation of Crete. This is Archipelago of Souls by Gregory Day. It is reviewed by a writer identified only by his/her initials (“AF”) in The Saturday … Continue reading
Posted in Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Archipelago of Souls, Gregory Day, The Battle of Crete, The Saturday Paper
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Sharper Sword
The South China Morning Post has published a review of Waugh’s Sword of Honour as part of a three-part retrospective review connected by each subject’s containing a knife in its title. The other two reviews relate to a 2006 recording by a Swedish rock … Continue reading
Posted in Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged In the Picture, Michael Scott, Roman Polanski, South China Morning Post, The Knife
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Waugh Letter a Hit at Hay Festival
At this year’s Hay Festival, there was the repeat of of an event from previous years where letters from noteworthy persons of the past are read aloud by their counterparts of the present. The event is called “Letters Live” and has … Continue reading
Posted in Festivals, Letters, World War II
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Hay Festival, Jude Law, Letters Live
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Peter Watson: Biography of Everard’s Angel
This week’s Spectator reviews a biography of Pater Watson, probably best known to Waugh fans as the financial backer of Cyril Connolly’s Horizon magazine during WWII and early postwar austerity. The magazine and Connolly are satirized as Survival and Everard … Continue reading
Posted in The Loved One, Work Suspended, World War II
Tagged Craig Brown, Cyril Connolly, Horizon, Mail on Sunday, Peter Watson, Sofka Zinovieff, Spectator
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Evelyn Waugh and Catch-22
Today’s Guardian adds Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel Catch-22 to its list of the 100 Best Novels, joining Scoop which was named in an earlier article. The article explains that Robert Gottlieb, the book’s editor at Simon & Schuster, tried to obtain … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Miscellaneous, World War II
Tagged Catch-22, Guardian, Joseph Heller, Robert Gottlieb
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Major Study of Waugh’s War Trilogy Published
Two well-known Waugh scholars have collaborated on a detailed study of Waugh’s War Trilogy. Their long-awaited work, In the Picture: The Facts Behind the Fiction in Evelyn Waugh’s “Sword of Honor,” was recently published by Editions Rodopi B.V. (Amsterdam and New … Continue reading
Sword of Honour Among Telegraph’s Best War and History Books
Waugh’s Sword of Honour Trilogy was listed by the Daily Telegraph earlier this year among “Best War and History Books of All Time.” The list consisted of 35 books, including both fiction and history in English and translation. Here is the … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Best War and History Books of All Time, Books to Read, Daily Telegraph
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Waugh Letter Appears in The American Reader
Waugh’s April 1946 letter to Randolph Churchill about his visit to the war criminal trials in Nuremburg is reprinted in the latest edition of The American Reader: A Journal of Literature and Criticism. The editorial introduction to the letter suggested … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Letters, World War II
Tagged Nuremberg Trials, Randolph Churchill, The American Reader
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The Culture Show: Writers in the Blitz
A recent episode of the BBC’s series The Culture Show (November 6, 2013), entitled Wars of the Heart, dealt with the experience of several writers during the Blitz. The presenter was James Runcie. The focus was on Graham Greene and … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Documentaries, London, Sightings, Television Programs, World War II
Tagged BBC, Graham Greene, Henry Yorke, James Runcie, Lara Feigel, The Culture Show, The Love-Charm of Bombs, Wars of the Heart
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