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 ...

"Charity requires that one forgive Waugh," argues Christopher Hitchens in "The Permanent Adolescent," his essay on the author in the May Atlantic, "precisely because it was his innate—as well as his ...

Evelyn Waugh is one of those writers whose works it is delightful to read, but whom it is usually awful to read about. Which of course leads to the inevitable question: how could someone so nasty ...

Waugh’s life and career have already been explored in three major biographies and numberless specialised studies. Why, then, do we need Eade? The answer is simple. A treasure trove of previously ...

It is 50 years since Evelyn Waugh died, of a heart attack at Easter 1966 after attending Mass. He was only 62, but old before his time, in poor health—deaf, alcoholic and depressed by the Second ...