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Tag Archives: New York Review of Books
New Article on War Trilogy
–The New Criterion (v. 45, No. 2, October 2026) has published a new article on Waugh’s War Trilogy, Sword of Honour. This is by John P. Rossi and opens with this: … Is there any World War II novel that … Continue reading
Thanksgiving (USA) Roundup
–The New York Review of Books has reviewed a book by Kit Kowol entitled Blue Jerusalem. The review by Ferdinand Mount is entitled “Flipping Britain’s Postwar Script.” Here’s the opening: Controlling the narrative is the name of the game now. … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Daily Mail, New York Review of Books, Russian translations
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Daylight Savings Time (US) Roundup
–The New York Review of Books has posted a review by Martin Filler entitled “Build Britannia.” This is about a book entitled Interwar British Architecture, 1919-1939 by Gavin Stamp. Here’s an excerpt: …A visceral distrust of European Modernism–emblematic of British … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Newspapers
Tagged Diario de Sevilla, New York Review of Books, The Times
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Washington’s Birthday Roundup
–D J Taylor has written a thoughtful obituary of David Lodge in the latest issue of the journal New Criterion. This is based on his review of Lodge’s life as written in the three-volume autobiography published in Lodge’s final years. … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Television Programs, Vile Bodies, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged borkena.com, David Lodge, Evening Standard, New Criterion, New York Review of Books
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Advent Roundup
–The religious website Thinking Faith has posted an essay by Gerard Kilroy, who is, inter alia, co-editor of the recently published volume of Edmund Campion in the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. In this essay, Kilroy explains in some detail the … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Edmund Campion, Letters, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Vile Bodies, World War II
Tagged Catholic Insight, Financial Review (Australia), New York Review of Books, The Times, Thinking Faith
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Roundup
–Novelist and biographer A N Wilson has published a detailed review of John Betjeman’s recently rebroadcast program Metroland. This appears in a recent issue of the Daily Mail. The BBC rebroadcast was mentioned in the previous Roundup. Wilson who was … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Scoop, Television, The Loved One
Tagged A N Wilson, City Journal, Daily Mail, Esquire, John Betjeman, New York Review of Books
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Cyril in Fiction: Roundup
–In his latest posting, Duncan Mclaren discusses yet another of Waugh’s friends. This time it is Cyril Connolly’s turn. McLaren looks at Cyril’s appearances in several of Waugh’s novels, at first obliquely as a name assigned to an unrelated character … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, A Tourist in Africa, Evelyn Waugh Studies, The Loved One, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Cyril Connolly, Nell Zink, New York Review of Books, Tatler, TV Guide
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Books: Waugh and Trump and Amis
This week’s New York Review of Books has as its lead review a book by Michael Lewis called The Fifth Risk. This is is about governmental dysfunction in the present USA administration and is reviewed by Fintan O’Toole, who opens with … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Ben Macintyre, Boston Globe, Frances Donaldson, Kingsley Amis, New York Review of Books
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