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Tag Archives: New Criterion
Peter Fleming’s War Career (More)
In the current New Criterion, D J Taylor reviews the recent biography of Peter Fleming, brother of Ian and friend of Evelyn Waugh. See previous post. Before addressing the contents of this biography, which covers his military career, Taylor discusses … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Officers and Gentlemen, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged D.J.Taylor, New Criterion, Peter Fleming
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Waugh and Pre-Raphaelites at Yale
The New Criterion’s website has posted an article about an exhibit at the Yale Center for British Art entitled “Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement”. The article is written by Stephen Schmalhofer and opens with this: … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Events, Newspapers, Rossetti: His Life and Works
Tagged New Criterion, Stephen Schmalhofer, Yale Center for British Art
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Otto Silenus Rides Again in New Criterion
The cutural journal New Criterion posts an editorial in its current issue relating to the recent announcement of a new Federal policy on architectural style. This is entitled “Decline, fall & rise: On ‘Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again’”. The article … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Newspapers
Tagged architecture, Hugo Charteris, New Criterion
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Halloween Roundup
–The London Review of Books in its latest issue has published an article by Rosemary Hill on the life and career of Auberon Waugh. This is entitled “Woof, woof” and includes a description of Auberon’s life from the time he … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Collections, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law
Tagged Cecil Beaton, Daniel Mendelsohn, Hillsdale College, London Review of Books, National Portrait Gallery, New Criterion, Rosemary Hill
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End-of-the-Month Roundup
–Today’s New York Times has an article about people who choose to have portraits of their houses painted rather than photographed: While landscape portraiture became a common endeavor for artists centuries ago, homes were rarely the principal subjects of the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Portraits, Scoop, World War II
Tagged Aleteia.org, John Verney, Michael Parkinson, New Criterion, New York Times, Times newspaper
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Martin Green Reconsidered
Writing in the New Criterion, David Platzer reconsiders a 1976 book by Martin Green (1927-2010), late Professor at Tufts University. This is called Children of the Sun and is described by Platzer as a book about: the remarkable literary generation, … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged David Platzer, Harold Acton, Martin Green, New Criterion
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Compton Mackenzie Reconsidered
In the wake of the recent New Statesman essay seeking to revive an interest in JB Priestley, the latest New Criterion has published one seeking to create a renewed interest in another neglected novelist of the same period. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Compton Mackenzie, David Platzer, New Criterion, Sinister Street
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Henry Green, Enthusiasms, Tammy Faye, and Clarissa
The attempted revival of Henry Green’s works and reputation marches ever onward. The latest contribution is an article by Dominic Green (no likely relationship since Henry’s family name was Yorke) in the New Criterion. Green makes the case that Yorke … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Catholicism, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers, Ronald Knox, Scoop
Tagged Clarissa Churchill, Daily Telegraph, Dominic Green, Henry Green, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, New Criterion, Spear's magazine, Weekly Standard
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New Criterion Reprints Article on Waugh’s African Writings
The New Criterion has reprinted a 2003 article by James Panero about Waugh’s writings on Africa, making the point that Waugh got most things right. This is entitled “Reading Africa in Waugh.” Panero’s family had business in Africa; his grandfather ran a … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Black Mischief, Letters, Scoop
Tagged Africa, James Panero, New Criterion
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Journals of Alan Pryce-Jones Published
The journals of literary critic and post-war editor of the TLS, Alan Pryce-Jones were published, largely unnoticed, late last year. These cover the years 1926-1939 and are entitled Devoid of Shyness. According to a recent notice in the New Criterion’s … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Diaries, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Alan Pryce-Jones, Graham Greene, New Criterion, Ronald Knox, Violet Powell
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