Waugh set his tale among people and events he knew well: the Bright Young Things of pre-World War II England, whose lives were a boozy round of parties and assignations, at country houses, weekend ...

Post-Brexit Britain is on the Waugh path. The first television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s satirical debut novel “Decline and Fall” has been hailed by British critics for how its depiction of a ...

When novelist Evelyn Waugh died of a sudden heart attack at 62 on Easter Sunday, 1966, his literary reputation was in decline, his work seen as nostalgic and retrograde compared to the countercultural ...

“I was christened Arthur Evelyn St John: the first name after my father, the second from a whim of my mother’s,” Evelyn Waugh wrote in his autobiography, A Little Learning. “I have never liked the ...

Novelist, travel writer, essayist, and biographer Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), the 50th anniversary of whose death rolled around this year, celebrated by those survivors who had the misfortune of knowing ...

Nearly 60 years ago, the renowned prose stylist and infamous Catholic convert Evelyn Waugh passed away. On Easter Sunday (April 10) 1966, after attending a soon-to-be-banned Tridentine Mass, Waugh met ...

Forward-thinking though his prose may have been, English writer Evelyn Waugh was a man who loved to look backward—at his debauched youth, at his spiritual journey, and at the erosion of the ...

This collection of Evelyn Waugh’s various BBC broadcasts between 1938 and 1963 is well worth the weak dollars you’ll spend to have it imported from Britain. The most delicious moment comes in an ...

Conversion is like stepping across the chimney piece out of a Looking-Glass world, where everything is an absurd caricature, into the real world God made; and then begins the delicious process of ...

The following is an interview held by Five Books for Catholics with Christopher J. Scalia about Evelyn Waugh’s life and work. “The reputation of Evelyn Waugh rests on two premises: that he was one of ...