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NONFICTION: Charles Dickens. Edgar Johnson ∙ Coming into the Country, John McPhee ∙ The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie ∙ Dispatches, Michael Herr On Photography, Susan Sontag
With hardly a falter, Elizabeth transformed herself from acolyte into doyenne. Neither rich nor silly enough to qualify as one of Evelyn Waugh's bright young things, she became a hostess whom congenital partygoers tried to please. When she inherited Bowen's Court, friends and supplicants trooped obediently to Ireland, where they endured without electricity or bathrooms. Elizabeth admitted that "the upstairs rooms are still rather Chas. Addams-ish-I often remind myself of his hostess showing in a guest: 'This is your room . . . If you want anything, just scream." She outlived her house. It was sold...
...Bowra was already a celebrated talent-spotter and host; among those who were just finishing their undergraduate careers in the mid-1920s, and who came and went within his circle, were Rex Warner, Cecil Day Lewis, Brian Howard, Cyril Connolly, Kenneth Clark, Henry Yorke (Henry Green), John Betjeman, Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell, John Sparrow, Isaiah Berlin, AJ. Ayer . . . There were giants in the earth in those days, but if in those days they were giants it was still within the context of their own circle; just a very talented group of young...
...tyranny ruled by a privileged clique of bureaucrats and generals. Coming into the Country by John McPhee. Three lengthy bulletins on Alaska, handcrafted out of diligent reporting and a supple style, magically transform this vast, nearly unspoiled area into a state of mind. The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh edited by Michael Davie. One of the century's great novelists discloses incidents in his life (among them the death of a child and a crucial stint as a public school teacher) that he put to brilliant use in his fiction. Dispatches by Michael Herr. Combat reports from Viet Nam, circa...
...Waugh, edited by Michael Davie...