The Great Macaulay Nov 13, 2009
Eventually, however, even his undemanding administrative duties came to annoy him; in his last years, worn down by cardiac trouble, he would have endorsed the sentiments that Evelyn Waugh confided to his diary in 1943: I ; don t want to influence opinions or events, or expose humbug or anything of that kind. I don t want to be of service to anyone or anything. (The American Conservative)
The Black Arts of Literary Biography Oct 30, 2009
One was Paula Byrne s fine book on Evelyn Waugh, Mad World, which traced persuasively and with original research how Brideshead Revisited had grown in Waugh s imagination from his friendship with the Lygon family of Madresfield Court ... Yet out of these subtle books had sprung, in rough order, the headlines that Evelyn Waugh had homosexual affairs at Oxford this probably isn t news, technically, but newspapers have short memories that Arthur Ransome had been a Russian spy (possible), and that... (The American Conservative)
* Softcover: US: Cricket X its so very American Oct 25, 2009
Nostalgia, comedy and melancholy mix in this novel, as in the work of many stylists X Evelyn Waugh and the less consistent John Banville come to mind. As for the books doubling-back, episodic structure, this may be a way of incorporating a range of personal memories. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Did we need Hitler to warn us about AIDS? Sep 15, 2009
Evelyn Waugh referred exquisitely to Goering's 'matronly charm' - which he compared to that of Tito. And those spendid glittering uniforms. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
The Bold Belloc Sep 11, 2009
Evelyn Waugh noted the Housman resemblance in 1954: He [Belloc] was a Christian Shropshire Lad and, by that enrichment, immeasurably Housman s superior. Did Belloc fail. (The American Conservative)
a new Somerset Maugham bio Sep 10, 2009
If her Nancy Mitford was a bit too short, her Evelyn Waugh a tad too hurried and her Rosamond Lehmann as a subject a trifle too slight, her Life of Maugham is pitch-perfect: supple, confident and written with something of the same beady detachment (and enjoyable signature streak of malice) as the great tale-teller himself. Christopher Isherwood compared Maugham to an old Gladstone bag covered with labels. (Harper's Magazine)
A Review of Brideshead Revisited (2... Aug 28, 2009
Evelyn Waugh s classic novel tells the story of Charles Ryder. A young artist from a middle-class family, Charles meets the fascinating Sebastian Flyte at Oxford. (Suite101.com)
Author argues for the morality of nonbelief and temperance toward belief Aug 19, 2009
someone supposedly asked Evelyn Waugh after the British writer converted to Roman Catholicism in 1930. According to legend, Waugh answered, Just think how much worse an [expletive] I would be if I were not a Christian. (Boston Globe)
on copyright and Ave Maria Jul 15, 2009
A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes. The Bugnini-Liturgy and the Reform of the Reform by Laszlo Dobszay. (Harper's Magazine)
A Tale of Two Buckleys Jul 7, 2009
In 1960, my grandfather, Evelyn Waugh, was offered $5,000 a year by Buckley to contribute fortnightly articles to National Review ... Twenty-two years later, Buckley was hosting the TV series of Waugh s novel Brideshead Revisited when a new book of Evelyn Waugh letters was published ... Buckley did not take kindly to being teased and wrote furious letters to Caen, to Mark Amory (editor of Evelyn Waugh s letters), and to my father. (The American Conservative)
Casualties of Waugh May 25, 2009
Evelyn Waugh died in 1966 and spent most of his last two decades wishing he had died in 1946 or better still in 1446 ... The late Hugh Trevor-Roper, now far better remembered as preposterous dupe (especially apropos the Hitler diaries) than for the historian s role in which he fancied himself, was driven to new heights of sectarian cackling by Waugh s creed: Follow me, says Mr. Evelyn Waugh, for in the intellectual emptiness of modern English Catholicism only the snob-appeal is left. (The American Conservative)
A Good Woman Found May 25, 2009
(God and Evelyn Waugh, another devout Catholic novelist, demonstrated the same synchronicity of spirit in the Deity s delivering sudden death to the great satirist as he bestrode his toilet on Easter Sunday and Waugh s receiving it that way. . (The American Conservative)
Ian M. Banks May 3, 2009
Olaf Stapledon (Star Maker), Magda Sweetland (Eightsome Reel), Hunter S. Thomson (Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas), Leo Tolstoy, Vernor Vinge (especially Grimm s Story and A Fire upon the Deep), Kurt Vonnegut, Ian Watson, Evelyn Waugh and Gene Wolfe to name but rather a lot but probably excluding a few I should have included. Are these very different from those authors you grew up reading as a child. (Suite101.com)
The Education of Charlie Banks Apr 17, 2009
Too often, Charlie's ruminations about the nature of the careless, beautiful rich are obvious mimicry of Evelyn Waugh and F. Scott Fitzgerald. One character finds an opportunity to quote from The Great Gatsby (" we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"). (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Herb Caen, Nov. 1, 1987: Bumping elbows with the Bright Young Things Apr 5, 2009
By assiduously hanging out on weekend nights at certain bars favored by The Bright Young Things (thank-ya, Evelyn Waugh), I have come to know many of them well enough to feel reasonably confident about the future. To put it simply, the kids are terrific. (San Francisco Chronicle)
A Nervous Splendor Mar 30, 2009
He belongs to the fourth generation of an English literary dynasty that includes the novelist Evelyn Waugh, who was his grandfather; his previous book, Fathers and Sons, is a memoir of the Waughs. The publishers of The House of Wittgenstein compare the novelistic richness of its style to Thomas Mann s first novel, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family, which was published in 1901. (New Yorker)
A-G Oxford and Cambridge Writers an... Mar 23, 2009
A-G Oxford and Cambridge Writers and Literature: Lewis Caroll, John Galsworthy, Evelyn Waugh ... Lewis Caroll, John Galsworthy, Evelyn Waugh ... Written by Evelyn Waugh, who like the narrator and protagonist of Charles Ryder, attended Hertford College, Oxford, Brideshead Revisited is not considered to be among the best work of Waugh, who himself upon rereading the novel wrote that he was appalled, even prefacing the revised 1959 edition with explanation and criticism of his work. (Suite101.com)
The Elusive Englishman Mar 7, 2009
In Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh depicts the esurient Anthony Blanche, modeled on Harold Acton and Brian Howard, as a mysterious creature, who, we are informed, carries with him the burden of the Wandering Jew. More tersely, Kingsley Amis dispatches young Irving Macher as a Hebrew jackanapes in One Fat Englishman. (The American Conservative)
Watertown senior notes Mar 5, 2009
The film is adapted from Evelyn Waugh s classic novel in which love and the British class system collide. With Emma Thompson, Charles Ryder and Haley Atwell. (Watertown TAB & Press, MA)
