Articles over the past half-century reflect an attempt to reconcile his bitter character with his brilliant writing. In "Evelyn Waugh Faces Life and Vice Versa" (December 1966), John Osborne ...

Vampire Weekend created an ultra-preppy persona inspired by Evelyn Waugh and played sunshine tunes ... absurdity of a culture that can’t get past dead symbols. Vampire Weekend used arch ...

The connections, though, have been there all along, slipping past previous literary scholars who couldn’t see beyond appearance. George Orwell (a.k.a. Eric Blair) and Evelyn Waugh were born in ...

Waugh converted to Catholicism in 1930, shortly after the dissolution of his unfortuitous marriage, to Evelyn (“Ev-” like ... exist both in the ancient past and, in the practice of faith ...

On October 6, 1940, Evelyn Waugh ... in the diaries quotes a letter from a commanding officer: "Nobody wished to have him ... he was the cause of constant trouble." But what Waugh effectively ...

Ever since I first read Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited as a master ... Ryder now has also converted to Catholicism and is reminiscing about the past while seeking solace in the chapel.

Evelyn Waugh himself admitted in the Preface to the 1959 revised edition that the book is infused with “a kind of gluttony … for the splendours of the recent past”: the romanticised picture ...

Evelyn Waugh is the greatest comic novelist of the ... with a compound of sharp rue and magniloquent longing, on his past. In his youth, there was a powerful love for beautiful and doomed ...

Eva Longoria, David Suchet to star in BBC miniseries 'Decline and Fall' Eva Longoria, David Suchet, Douglas Hodge and Jack Whitehall are to star in the first TV adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's 1920s ...