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Tag Archives: New Statesman
Presidents’ Day Roundup
—The London Magazine has posted two articles from its recent offerings that comment on Evelyn Waugh. The first is from an unsigned Poetry and Politics column: Contemporary parliamentarians, in my experience, are not specially attuned to contemporary verse. There are … Continue reading
Columbus Day Roundup: Cricket, Latin and Name Extinction
–In what is perhaps this week’s most interesting story, the Independent newspaper has posted a history of the Hollywood Cricket Club. This is by Leonie Cooper and describes in some detail the club’s founding, growth and membership. Evelyn Waugh makes … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged America magazine, New Statesman, The Economist, The independent newspaper, The Times newspaper
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Roundup: Mostly Books
–The Public Domain Review has posted an article and links to reproductions from a noted piece of Victoriana in the Waugh Collection at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas. Here’s the opening: The novelist Evelyn Waugh was an inveterate … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Interview Magazine, Irish Times, J F Powers, New Statesman, Public Domain Review
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Roundup: Inez, Cecil and Paddington Bear
–In this week’s New Statesman, D J Taylor reviews the life and work of Inez Holden, an early friend of Evelyn Waugh in the days of the bright young people. The article opens with this: Inez Holden’s diary – a … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Sword of Honour, Theater
Tagged Cecil Beaton, Guardian, Guyana, Inez Holden, New Statesman, The Independent, The Spectator
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Roundup: Boris Johnson, Arcadia and a Feghoot
–The New Statesman mentions Waugh twice in separate articles recounting the last days of Boris Johnson’s premiership. The first is by Jason Cowley and is entitled “In 2019 Boris Johnson had everything he wanted. But the gods were waiting for … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Feghoots, New Statesman, The Spectator, TLS, Washington Post
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Mother’s Day Roundup
–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
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Oxford, Put Out More Flags, Translations
Tagged Asparagus, Bloomsbury Academic, Crisis magazine, New Statesman, The Oxford Student, TLS
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Post-Thanksgiving Roundup
–10 December will mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Christopher Hitchens. This is commemorated in the Financial Times by an article entitled “The World Christopher Hitchens Left Behind”. This is by Janan Ganash who might have used as … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Helena, Lectures, Newspapers, Oxford, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Herald, Christopher Hitchens, Financial Times, Irish Times, New Statesman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Quadrant
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Roundup: Public Schools, Pronunciation and Epigraphs
–The Daily Telegraph has an essay by Rupert Christiansen reviewing the English obsession with Public Schools. This begins with a consideration of several novels, films and stage plays that center on the miserable lives suffered by both students and teachers … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Interviews, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Guardian, New Statesman, Rev Sydney Smith, The Literary Hub
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Mid-May Roundup
–Nicholas Lezard, writing for the New Statesman opens his article on cold weather angst with this: I was reading Evelyn Waugh’s first travel book, Labels, which for some inexplicable reason I had never got round to before, and I was … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Labels, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Mail, New Statesman, The Imaginative Conservative, The Spectator, The Times
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The Pursuit of Adaptations
The verdicts on the recent BBC adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s novel The Pursuit of Love are decidedly mixed. This is not surprising, since the advance announcements indicated this version would take a fresh approach, given that there had been two … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Nancy Mitford, New Statesman, The Spectator
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