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Taylor Jenkins Reid recalls a moment writing her new novel, “Atmosphere: A Love Story,” set against NASA’s robust 1980s ...
For Nashvillians, there will always be life before and after March 27th, 2023: the day of the Covenant School shooting.
John le Carré meets Evelyn Waugh in Mann’s terrific second novel (after The Torqued Man), set mostly in California on the eve ...
This well-researched biography of Muriel Spark offers fresh insights into her life and work, writes Allan Massie ...
One of my favourites moments in Sydney Pollack’s 1985 film adaptation of Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa comes when Meryl Streep tries to divert a flow of water that threatens her coffee crop. She stands ...
The enduring fascination that has evolved around Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited has been extraordinary since it ...
Evelyn Waugh, the greatest English satirist of that ... aristocratic world he’d been born into. Edward St Aubyn, author of the autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels.Credit: Timothy Allen ...
Anthony Powell, a novelist whom British Critic V.S. Pritchett has ranked with Evelyn Waugh, and whom Evelyn ... than that they are well known to the author and he has not yet decided on the ...
But in 1938, British novelist and occasional newspaperman Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) turned the dagger deliciously inward with “Scoop,” a raucous lampoon of his fellow ink-stained wretches.
But George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh, then at the outset of their careers ... and his biography is far and away the most perceptive book written about Waugh. Like most comedians, in Sykes’s judgment, ...
David Pryce-Jones explores the novels of Evelyn Waugh and his special relationship with the author. Evelyn Waugh was one of those characters that English literature throws up now and again, who put a ...
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