Tag Archives: Los Angeles Times

Tax-Day Roundup

Posted on April 16, 2023 by Jeffrey Manley

—Country Life magazine has posted a 2-part essay on the history of Edwin Lutyens design and the building of Campion Hall at Oxford. Waugh was involved in the process. Here’s an excerpt from part 1: …Waugh celebrated the Hospitality of … Continue reading →

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Tax Day Roundup

Posted on April 15, 2022 by Jeffrey Manley

–Writing in The Tablet, former Anglican priest Chris Moody provides a remembrance of Septimus Waugh. He begins by recounting a visit, shortly before Septimus’s recent death, where Moody showed him the photo of his latest work as installed in an … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Vagaries and More

Posted on August 12, 2021 by Jeffrey Manley

–Writing in the TLS, critic and novelist DJ Taylor discusses one genre he discovered he enjoyed during his lockdown reading. He identifies this as the writer’s vagary: What is the writer’s vagary? It is the solitary book in a well-known … Continue reading →

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Easter Roundup: Reading Waugh in a Time of Self-Isolation

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–An article in National Review relates mainly to Alessandro Manzoni’s 1840 novel in Italian The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi). This is by M D Aeschliman who explains the popularity of the 700 page work among his University of Virginia students … Continue reading →

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4th of July Weekend Roundup

Posted on July 7, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

–America: The Jesuit Review has reposted on its website a 2013 essay about Waugh written by Jon M Sweeney. The essay was a response to the re-issuance of all of his fiction in the USA by Little, Brown and all … Continue reading →

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USA Premiere of Decline and Fall Today

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Acorn-TV is premiering the BBC’s adaptation of Waugh’s first novel Decline and Fall today. All three episodes are available now for streaming, and a free one-week trial is on offer for those who do not already have subscriptions. Here’s the link … Continue reading →

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