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Tag Archives: The Critic
Twofer: Waugh and the Country House
–An essay in current issue of The Critic is devoted to the threatened demise and later salvation of the English Country House. This is by Lara Brown and is entitled “Waugh saves the English country house.” She begins by explaining … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers
Tagged country house, Graham Swift, Mothering Sunday, Prospect Magazine, The Critic
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St Patricks Day Roundup
–The current issue of The Critic magazine has the latest effort to revive the works of novelist Henry Green. This is in an article entitled “An off-kilter visionary” by Alexander Larman. The article prominently cites Waugh’s on and off relationship … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Festivals, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Theater, Vile Bodies
Tagged Henry Green, Holland Festival, The Critic, The Imaginative Conservative, The Wrap
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Valentine’s Day Roundup
–David Mills writing in The Times takes another look at the novels of post-Waugh English satirist Simon Raven. He considers the 1969 novel The Rich Pay Late, the first of 10 in Ravens’s Alms for Oblivion series: …Raven is astoundingly … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Bret Easton Ellis, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Forest Lawn Museum, P.G.Wodehouse, Public Discourse, Simon Raven, The Critic, The Literary Hub, The Times
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MLK Day Roundup
–The German-language paper Der Standart based in Austria has posted an article about Waugh’s book collecting. This is mostly devoted to a book previously discussed. Here is a translation of the text: You may know the British novelist Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Letters, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Der Standard, Independent (Dublin), London Review of Books, Norman Mailer, The Critic
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Roundup: Books Listed, Reviewed and Revisited
–The Daily Telegraph has a review of the new book by David Fleming entitled Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club. This was published in the UK last month as noted in a recent post. The review is by Nikhil … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Entertainment Weekly, Kurt Vonnegut, Literary Hub, New York Times, The Critic
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Fall Equinox Roundup
—The Sunday Times contributes another assessment of the literary achievements of Queen Elizabeth II’s years. This is entitled “The books that defined the Queen’s reign.” It is written by Dominic Sandbrook, who begins with a consideration of T S Eliot’s … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop, Television Programs, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged BBC, Dominic Sandbrook, Literary Review of Canada, The Atlantic Monthly, The Critic, The Sunday Times, University Challenge
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Father’s Day Roundup
–The New Yorker offers a special Father’s Day treat by reposting several articles from its archives on the subject of fathers. One of these is the 2007 review by Joan Acocella of the book Fathers and Sons by Alexander Waugh. … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Autographs, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Piers Court, Television Programs, Waugh Family
Tagged Bonhams, Harvard Law School, New Yorker, The Critic, WiltshireLive.com
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Smallbeer, the Professor and Waugh
D J Taylor writing in the current issue of The Critic describes how Professor Barry Mole managed to eke a career out of the works of the largely forgotten 1930s poet Esme Smallbeer. This is the latest entry in his … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged D.J.Taylor, The Critic
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May Day Roundup
–The second part of Alexander Larman’s centenary recognition of Kingsley Amis has appeared in this month’s regular issue of The Critic. See previous post. He starts with an amusing description of Amis’s somewhat ramshackle acceptance of his Booker Prize for … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One, Vile Bodies, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Alan Bennett, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Gavin Millar, Guardian, The Critic, The Jacobin
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Roundup: Book List and Bullingdon
–Charles Moore writing in the Daily Telegraph has a story entitled “Not even the Queen’s Jubilee is safe from BBC preaching: There are good writers all across the Commonwealth, but Auntie insists on telling us that it knows best”. He … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Oxford, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged BBC, Bullingdon Club, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Queen's Jubilee Book List, The Critic, The Spectator
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