Tag Archives: The Conversation

Presidents’ Day Roundup

Posted on February 18, 2023 by Jeffrey Manley

—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 →

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Roundup: “The Waste Land” Centenary

Posted on October 16, 2022 by Jeffrey Manley

–The centenary of T S Eliot’s The Waste Land has been marked in several print and broadcast media. The Washington Post notes the poem’s appearance in Brideshead Revisited: First published in the inaugural October 1922 issue of Eliot’s literary magazine, the Criterion, … Continue reading →

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90th Anniversary of Black Mischief Marked

Posted on October 13, 2022 by Jeffrey Manley

A feature length article in the academic journal The Conversation marks the 90th anniversary this month of the publication of Waugh’s third novel Black Mischief. This is by Naomi Milthorpe who is also the editor of the Complete Works of … Continue reading →

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Brideshead: Crime Story, Aesthetes and a Scientist

Posted on March 16, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The second season of the TV series American Crime Story is nearing its end on the FX cable channel in the USA. It has just begun on BBC and has reached Episode 3 this week. It is entitled the Assassination … Continue reading →

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Lost Children and Losing Margarine

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Guardian has published an article by Alex Clark about the theme of lost children in literature. The prime example is Ian McEwen’s Thatcher-era novel The Child in Time whch has been adapted for television by BBC/PBS in a 90-minute … Continue reading →

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Journalists in Literature Surveyed in New Book

Posted on July 13, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

In a book to be published tomorrow by Bloomsbury, Dr Sarah Lonsdale, who teaches at the City University London, surveys the role of the journalist in British literature over the period since 1900. The book is entitled The Journalist in British Fiction … Continue reading →

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