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Tag Archives: New Statesman
Waugh’s V-J Day
V-J Day celebrates its 75th anniversary this week. The Japanese surrendered on 15 August 1945 in Japan but the news was received when it was 14 August in the UK and USA. In Britain this was a much lesser event … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Diaries
Tagged DJ Taylor, Kings College London, New Statesman, Prof Ashley Jackson, Randolph Churchill, V-J Day
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Waugh Appears in Danish Trilogy
The current issue of The Spectator contains a review of translations of a Danish writer who describes a meeting with Waugh in Copenhagen in the 1940s. This is Tove Ditlevsen and the books are entitled The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood, Youth, … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Spectator, Tove Ditlevsen
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Roundup
–A recent post in the website Beforeitsnews.com announces that the Holy Stairs in Rome have recently been reopened after an extended period of restoration. The story cites Evelyn Waugh’s Helena for background: The great Catholic novelist Evelyn Waugh had a … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Edmund Campion, Helena, Newspapers
Tagged Colm Tóibín, Gulf News, London Review of Books, Lucy Freeman, New Statesman, Roger Scruton, Thomas Stukeley
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J B Priestley Revival?
The New Statesman has a feature article this week promoting a revival of novelist and playwright J B Priestley. This is by Michael Henderson who writes that Priestley has fallen out of fashion along with such other formerly popular writers … Continue reading
Estate of Waugh
In this week’s New Statesman, lead book reviewer Leo Robson expands his horizons to consider the question of how literary estates have affected literary history. There are four books listed as the subject of the review, but these are barely … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Leo Robson, Martin Stannard, New Statesman
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William Boyd, Winston Churchill and Evelyn Waugh
Simon Kuper writing in the Financial Times reports an interview with novelist William Boyd. This is on the occasion of publication of Boyd’s latest novel Love is Blind: Boyd draws a “binary division” between two kinds of novelist: autobiographers, such … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Financial Times, New Statesman, P J O'Rourke, Wall Street Journal, William Boyd, Winston Churchill
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Philip Roth (1933-2018)
The death was announced earlier this week of the American novelist Philip Roth. Like Tom Wolfe, who died the preceding week, much of his early work was written in the comic, satirical tradition of Evelyn Waugh. So far, however, no … Continue reading
Roundup: Vile Media
The magazine GQ India had an article about Asian-based novels satirizing Asian-based rich people. This opens with a reference to one of Waugh’s novels: It is an unassailable truth that where there is money, a thinly veiled roman-à-clef documenting the … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Collections, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Catholic Herald, Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, GQ India, Guardian, New Statesman, University of Regina
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From African Kleptocracy to Spark’s Legacy
A feature length article in the Australian edition of the Spectator deals with the political flap over policy toward immigration of white South African farrmers into Australia. This is entitled “Kleptocracy on the Cape” by Thomas Jones and opens with … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop, Television Programs
Tagged Africa, Guardian, Leo Robson, Muriel Spark, New Statesman, Rachel Cooke, Spectator (Australia)
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Take a Pew, or Not, as the Case May Be
In “The Times Diary” column of today’s edition of the paper, Patrick Kidd writes this about relations between Evelyn Waugh and John Betjeman: WAUGH OF WORDS Visitors to Combe Florey, the family home of Evelyn and Auberon Waugh, used to … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Auberon Waugh, Combe Florey, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Cecil Beaton, John Betjeman, Jonathan Smith, New Statesman, Patrick Kidd, The Times
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