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Tag Archives: Wall Street Journal
Mid-September Roundup
–A new biography of Claud Cockburn, friend and cousin of Evelyn Waugh has been published. This is entitled Believe in Nothing Until It is Officially Denied and is reviewed on the British political website conservativehome.com. The book by Patrick Cockburn … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Biographies, Complete Works, Film, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Claud Cockburn, Conservativehome.com, Oxford University Press, The Times, Wall Street Journal
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Late Winter Roundup
–The Daily Telegraph has an article by Bernard Richards in which he considers how difficult it can be to translate idiomatic English words and phrases into French. He also notes Evelyn Waugh had struggled with the same problem: …English idioms … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Internet, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Jack Whitehall, The Times newspaper, Wall Street Journal
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Elizabeth II (1926-2022) R.I.P.
The main story of the week is of course the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Waugh commented little about the monarchy, but some of the papers found relevant references in his works. –Dominic Green writing in the Wall Street Journal … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Items for Sale, Letters, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Evening Standard, Guardian, Wall Street Journal
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Labo(u)r Day Roundup
–Christopher Buckley writing in the Wall Street Journal has identified what he considers to be the five best literary breakdowns. Waugh’s Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is one of his selections: Evelyn Waugh called this, his next-to-last novel, his “mad book,” … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television Programs, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Daily Mail, Seattle Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The New European, University Challenge, Venice, Wall Street Journal
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Terry Teachout (1956-2022) R.I.P
American literary, drama and music critic Terry Teachout died earlier this week at the age of 65. It its obituary, the New York Times commented that the conservative Teachout never allowed his political views to influence his artistic judgement: An … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged New York Times, Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal
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Hallowe’en Roundup
–Giles Coren writing in The Times surveys the plight of the male novelist in today’s literary market. After describing the difficulties of getting published in a world where publishers and readers are mostly women as well as the lack of … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Collections, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Waugh Family
Tagged Aleteia, Country Houses, Daily Telegraph, First Things, The Economist, The Times, Wall Street Journal
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Columbus Day Roundup
—The Independent newspaper collected from its readers book titles that played on the titles of older books. These were published in a recent article by John Rentoul. One of Waugh’s was selected: 8. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Events, Interviews, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers
Tagged American Greatness, Duncan McLaren, FlashBak.com, New York Public Library, The Independent, Wall Street Journal
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Roundup: Brideshead to Bridgerton
–A new Netflix serial “Bridgerton” has been compared in several papers to Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited and its film and TV adaptations. Here an excerpt from the Bloomsberg News: … “Bridgerton” is a sly and sexy Netflix Inc. series set … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Newspapers, Television Programs, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Bloomberg News, Netflix, New Criterion, The Times, TheRoyalUK.com, Wall Street Journal
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Roundup: Protests and Summer
–The “Rhodes Must Fall” debate has been revived in Oxford in the context of the Black Lives Matter protests. See previous post. In the Daily Mail, a comment on the matter by Evelyn Waugh is brought to bear: Oxford will … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Daily Mail, National Review, Prospect, RTV Slovenia, Wall Street Journal
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