Tag Archives: Radio Spada

Spring Equinox Roundup

Posted on March 19, 2022 by Jeffrey Manley

–The religious-philosophical website First Things has posted an article by George Weigel about conspiracy theories from within the Vatican hierarchy. This opens with an allusion to a seldom-mentioned Waugh character who has suddenly become relevant in the present international environment: … Continue reading →

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The Loved One in Italy

Posted on March 3, 2022 by Jeffrey Manley

A review of The Loved One has appeared in the Italian language religious website Radio Spada. This is by Luca Fumagalli who has been working his way through Waugh’s oeuvre as well as that of his contemporaries. This latest installment … Continue reading →

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Waugh Abroad: Firbank and Scoop

Posted on February 19, 2022 by Jeffrey Manley

Two foreign language journals have recently reviewed works of Waugh. The first is in the Italian religious website Radio Spada. In that essay, Luca Fumagalli reviews an early essay by Waugh on Ronald Firbank that appeared in a 1929 issue … Continue reading →

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Midwinter Roundup

Posted on January 28, 2022 by Jeffrey Manley

–Charles Moore writing in his miscellany column for The Spectator marks the upcoming 70th anniversary of the death of George VI: King George VI died in his sleep 70 years ago next week, after a day at Sandringham shooting hares … Continue reading →

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“Brideshead Regained” Again

Posted on September 19, 2021 by Jeffrey Manley

The Italian religious webpage Radio Spada has posted a review of the 2003 “sequel” to Brideshead Revisited. This somewhat misbegotten volume was written by Michael Johnston as an intended celebration of Waugh’s centenary. As explained in the article, the book … Continue reading →

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Roundup (Hons and Chips)

Posted on September 12, 2021 by Jeffrey Manley

–Novelist Amanda Craig writing in a recent Sunday Times article considers an unusual judgment in a recent terrorist case. The defendant was found to have downloaded nearly 70,000 pages of white supremacist material. The judge ordered him to instead spend … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Vagaries and More

Posted on August 12, 2021 by Jeffrey Manley

–Writing in the TLS, critic and novelist DJ Taylor discusses one genre he discovered he enjoyed during his lockdown reading. He identifies this as the writer’s vagary: What is the writer’s vagary? It is the solitary book in a well-known … Continue reading →

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Waugh Would Not Be Happy

Posted on July 28, 2021 by Jeffrey Manley

To Evelyn Waugh, one of the most important aspects of the Roman Catholic Church’s Vatican II reforms of 1960 was the limitation on the use of the traditional Latin Mass. He spent his final years in active opposition to this … Continue reading →

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Sword of Honour Reviewed in Italy (More)

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Jeffrey Manley

Luca Fumagalli has completed his review of Sword of Honour with two installments in subsequent postings on Radio Spada.  See previous post for volume 1. The review and summary of second volume Officers and Gentlemen (Ufficiale e Gentiluomini in Italian) … Continue reading →

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Sword of Honour Reviewed in Italy

Posted on December 30, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Italian language religious newspaper Radio Spada has started what will apparently be a multi-article review of Waugh’s war trilogy. This is written by Luca Fumagalli who has written previously in Italian on Waugh’s work. See previous posts. An edited … Continue reading →

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