Tag Archives: The Spectator

Michaelmas Roundup

Posted on September 23, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–Several religious journals carry a story by George Weigel about the elimination of the Papal States in the 19th century as part of Italy’s reunification. The article, as published in the interfaith journal First Things, opens with this: Evelyn Waugh’s … Continue reading →

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End-of-July Roundup

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

—The Economist magazine’s 1843 section has an article by Catherine Nixey entitled: “The death of nostalgia”. It is subtitled: “People used to pine for a simpler life. Now they’ve got it – and it’s not all it’s cracked up to … Continue reading →

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Another Spectator Competition: Glasto & Glynders

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Spectator recently set another parody competition in which a Waugh entry received honorable mention but once again was not among those published. See previous post. This was described by columnist Lucy Vickery as: … Competition No. 3157 [in which] … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Riots and Pestilence

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–Conservative essayist and editor Roger Kimball writing in the journal The Epoch Times (describing itself as “non-partisan” but otherwise characterized elsewhere) addresses the controversial subject of political protests and street riots in the USA. The article is entitled “Those Burning … Continue reading →

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Brideshead @ 75: Castle Howard, The Spectator, BBC

Posted on May 28, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

Today is the 75th anniversary of the first book publication of Brideshead Revisited. Chapman & Hall and the Book Society jointly issued the book in London on 28 May 1945. The occasion has been marked in several recent events: –Castle … Continue reading →

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Stephen Tennant: Underachieving Novelist

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The publicity surrounding the shuttered Cecil Beaton exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (see earlier posts) has apparently stirred up interest in Beaton’s friend and sometime collaborator Stephen Tennant. The Paris Review has posted an article reviewing Tennant’s career, with … Continue reading →

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The Spectator at 10,000 (More)

Posted on April 26, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Spectator’s celebration of its 10,000th issue continues to spread and produce comment. The Daily Telegraph provides an opportunity for The Spectator’s current editor Fraser Nelson to explain what he has found to be the magazine’s approach to politics: …David … Continue reading →

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The Spectator at 10,000

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Spectator, always proud of its heritage as the oldest periodical in English, is now celebrating the publication of its 10,000th issue. As part of this, they commissioned a clerihew competition (“Two couplets, AABB, metrically clunky, laconic and humorous in … Continue reading →

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Easter Roundup: Reading Waugh in a Time of Self-Isolation

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–An article in National Review relates mainly to Alessandro Manzoni’s 1840 novel in Italian The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi). This is by M D Aeschliman who explains the popularity of the 700 page work among his University of Virginia students … Continue reading →

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Humor Books in the News

Posted on March 3, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Spectator has reposted a review from December 2005 by biographer and literary critic Bevis Hillier of the third edition of Ned Sherrin’s Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations. He had some reservations about the earlier editions as being overly inclusive but … Continue reading →

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