Tag Archives: Crisis magazine

Roundup: From MoI to Antifa

Posted on July 28, 2022 by Jeffrey Manley

–University of London has posted a history of Senate House, a large modern building on its campus near the British Museum. It housed the Ministry of Information (“MoI”) during WWII. Waugh features in the discussion: Literary descriptions of Senate House … Continue reading →

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Mother’s Day Roundup

Posted on May 7, 2022 by Jeffrey Manley

–Nicholas Lezard writing in the New Statesman calls on Basil Seal to explain why asparagus (now coming into season in northerly climates) is the most sexy vegetable: … like all things sexy, it trembles on the edge of exploitation. In … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s Signature, Favorite Dublin Pub, Lost in Translation, Etc.

Posted on November 13, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

–Duncan McLaren has posted a short note on Waugh’s change in his signature at an early stage in his career. This is posted on his website under WAUGH BITES. McLaren is able to triangulate that change in the early 1930’s … Continue reading →

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Waugh and Death

Posted on September 24, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

In a recent issue of The American Scholar, an article by Sudip Bose notes a connection between Evelyn Waugh and Igor Stravinsky’s Requiem Canticles. This was a late compositon that was played at Stravinsky’s own 1971 funeral in Venice. He … Continue reading →

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Review of Helena in Roman Catholic Journal

Posted on November 4, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The Roman Catholic online journal Crisis Magazine, published by the Sophia Institute Press, has posted a retrospective review of Waugh’s 1950 historical novel Helena, possibly his least read work of book-length fiction. The review is entitled “A Catholic Satirist at Work” … Continue reading →

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Brideshead Reviewed in Cambridge and Elsewhere

Posted on May 18, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Brideshead Revisited opened its run at the Cambridge Arts Theatre yesterday and is reviewed today in the Cambridge News. In the review, by Lydia Fallon, she finds herself  really wanting to love [the] play, but then leaving the theatre feeling a … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh and the Resolute Old Lady

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

In an article in Crisis magazine, Professor Regis Martin from a Roman Catholic college in Ohio is reminded of Waugh as he conducts a group of his students around Europe. This occurs as they are about to visit a church in the outskirts of Vienna … Continue reading →

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