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Tag Archives: The Spectator
End of Wintertime (UK) Roundup
–A review by Dylan Neri in The Spectator about a book entitled Carbon: The Book of Life by Paul Hawken opens with this: There is a scene in Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One in which a magazine’s advice columnist ‘the Guru … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Internet, Interviews, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged Anglican Samizdat, Anthony Powell, Apollo, The Critic, The Spectator
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Roundup: Waugh and Merton
—The Tablet has published a thoughtful article by Canadian author Mary Frances Coady about the relationship between Catholic writers Evelyn Waugh and Thomas Merton. This is entitled “The Odd Couple”. Here are some excerpts: In the early summer of 1948, … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
Tagged Chronicle, George Mikes, Mary Frances Coady, The Spectator, The Tablet, Thomas Merton, W Somerset Maugham
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Valentine’s Day Roundup
–Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the New York Times Book Review has posted this notice in its “Read Like the Wind” column. It is written by Book Review editor Joumana Khatib: The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy, by Evelyn … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Mail, New York Times, P.G.Wodehouse, Robert Plunket, The Daily Telegraph, The Hudson Review, The Spectator, W H Pritchard
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Roundup: End of a Literary Era
–This week’s issue of the New Statesman has as its Weekend Essay an article by John Mullan. This is entitled “The Death of the British Catholic Novel: Catholicism gave English literature something it needs to rediscover” and opens with this: … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Oxford, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged David Lodge, New Statesman, Somerville College Oxford, St John's College, The Spectator, Washington Post
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Roundup: Renewed Interest in Rosemary Tonks
–The London Review of Books reviews the reprints of three of the later novels by poet-novelist Rosemary Tonks. She wrote during the period 1963-1980. After a rather difficult life, she stopped writing in 1980 to become a fundamentalist Christian, dying … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged London Review of Books, Rosemary Tonks, The Guardian, The Spectator, Vanity Fair
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New Year’s Roundup
–Writing in The Spectator, Druin Burch reviews the press coverage of the Lucy Letby case (recently convicted of murdering babies in her care) and recalls the case of an earlier nurse (Benjamin Geen) who was also convicted of murder. The … Continue reading
Posted in Labels, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Angelus, National Review, The Spectator
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Roundup: Euthanasia, Stiff-upper-lips, and Feminism
–American journalist Roger Kimball, writing in The Spectator, offers his views on certain aspects of legislation proposed by the new Labour Government: …What if you are old, sick or just plain inconvenient? Starmer’s government has a plan for you, too. … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers, Oxford, Photographs, Podcast, Vile Bodies
Tagged Catholic World Report, MIT Press, The Spectator, Tyler Cowen
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Labor Day Roundup
—Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington has announced a Fall schedule of literary podcasts and other activities. One of these features a four-hour discussion of Brideshead Revisited in two separate podcast episodes. Here is their description: One of the most … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Podcast
Tagged New Statesman, Politics and Prose Bookstore, The Irish Times, The Spectator
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Roundup: Two Letters and a Vase
—The Spectator has an article by Dot Wordsworth that features a misattribution to Evelyn Waugh. Here’s the opening: ‘Evelyn Waugh,’ said my husband when I asked who came up with the analogy of carrying a Ming vase. He was, in … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Letters, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Oxford, World War II
Tagged New York Times, Sotheby's, The Guardian, The Spectator
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Two Interesting Offers: A Manuscript and a Letter
A Waugh manuscript is on offer on the ABE bookseller website. This is the three-page handwritten manuscript of the article entitled “Awake My Soul! It Is a Lord” that appeared in The Spectator on 8 July 1955. Here’s the description: … Continue reading
Posted in Autographs, Items for Sale, Letters, Manuscripts, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Malcolm Muggeridge, Punch, The Spectator
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