As Brideshead Revisited turns 80, how Evelyn Waugh took inspiration from a tragic aristocrat in creating his own waywardly-eccentric Sebastian Flyte in his iconic novel of upper class foibles ...

Other novels on the list include “The Children of Men” by P.D. James, “A Bend in the River” by V.S. Naipaul, “The Index of Self-Destructive Acts” by Christopher Beha and “Scoop” by Evelyn Waugh.

Yet later Catholic fiction almost changed Orwell’s mind. On his deathbed, he was composing a piece on Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (an article that he did not live to finish). Waugh had been ...

Seeking something light to read following the Christmas doldrums I decided to look into what I remembered as one of the funniest of Evelyn Waugh’s comic novels, Black Mischief. I discovered that ...

For years, social media users on X, Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms have claimed George Orwell, the British author best known for his novels "1984" and "Animal Farm," once said: "At 50 ...

Alexander Waugh, who has died aged 60, was the son of the columnist Auberon Waugh and grandson of the novelist Evelyn Waugh, and a widely accomplished and colourful character in his own right. A ...

However you're planning to spend your summer, take a moment to soak in all that the season has to offer. Lazy summer days may feel like they last forever, but autumn soon puts an end to balmy ...

Portrait of Evelyn Waugh from December 1940 velyn Waugh was one of those characters that English literature throws up now and again, who put a special stamp on the times, like Dean Swift or Dr.

Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years, 1939-1966 By Martin Stannard Norton, 523 pages, $29.95 In his books, Evelyn Waugh was a giant of 20th Century English literature; in life, he was nasty, British and ...

But on days like Veterans Day, when I seek to make sense of my service, I read Men at Arms by British author and humorist Evelyn Waugh. I first read Waugh’s classic in 2000 or so. About 16 with ...