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Tag Archives: Mail on Sunday
Waugh, the Stirling Brothers and the SAS
The Daily Mail has posted an article from the Mail on Sunday by Gavin Mortimer about his new book The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS. This is about David Stirling, a WWII … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Bill Stirling, David Stirling, Gavin Mortimer, Mail on Sunday, The Courier {Perth & Kinross)
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Roundup: From Party Going to Boredom
–A recent issue of Financial Times contains a “Weekend Essay” on the return of the party, to London and New York at least. This is by Alex Bilmes who is editor of Esquire. After reminiscing about how party going shut … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Vile Bodies, Work Suspended
Tagged Craig Brown, Daily Mail, Financial Times, Madeleine Kearns, Mail on Sunday, National Catholic Register, The Spectator
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Early October Roundup
–In the current issue of TLS, writer Henry Hitchins reviews the two recent collections of the writings of Auberon Waugh. The review, entitled “Like a fine whine”, opens with this: “Looking back over my career to date, and at all … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Anniversaries, Auberon Waugh, Black Mischief, Film, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Sword of Honour, Television, World War II
Tagged BBC, HBO, Mail on Sunday, Robert Laffont, The Spectator, TLS
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One Humorist Reviews Another
Craig Brown writing in this week’s Mail on Sunday offers an article that is more in praise of Auberon Waugh as a humorist than it is of the recent collection of his writings. Brown begins with his assessment of Auberon’s … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Collections, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday, Naim Attallah
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Waugh and Death
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
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged Crisis magazine, Igor Stravinsky, Mail on Sunday, Peter Hitchens, The American Scholar
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Corker and Shumble ReBooted
Simon Parry writing in the South China Morning Post offers a retelling of Waugh’s parody of journalists reset in the jungles of today’s Papua New Guinea. He is hired by an unnamed London Sunday paper to cover the story of … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Benedict Allen, Daily Mail, journalism, Mail on Sunday, Simon Parry, South China Morning Post
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Lady Burghclere’s Maid
The Mail on Sunday has published extracts from letters relating to the break-up of Evelyn Waugh’s first marriage. These letters were written by Ethel North to a friend of hers (Elsie Merrall) over a a period of years (1919-33) during … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Waugh Family
Tagged Ethel North, Lady Burghclere, Mail on Sunday
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Two Hitchenses on Waugh
Articles on Waugh by brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens have recently been resurrected on the internet. These are Christopher’s essay “The Permanent Adolescent” which originally appeared in The Atlantic magazine for April 2003 and was later collected in Arguably. This is now … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Articles, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Sword of Honour, Waugh Family, World War II
Tagged Aleteia.com, Christopher Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, Peter Hitchens, YouTube
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New Novel with Brideshead Theme
A new novel has a Brideshead theme. This is the third novel by Francesca Kay, whose first two were also well received. This one is entitled The Long Room and, according to a review by Max Davidson in the Mail … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged 1981, Francesca Kay, Mail on Sunday, Max Davidson
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Waugh on Spender
Satirist Craig Brown has reviewed a memoir of poet Stephen Spender in this week’s Mail on Sunday. This is a book by Spender’s son Matthew entitled A House in St. John’s Wood: In Search of My Parents. Among other revelations, … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday, Matthew Spender, Stephen Spender
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