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Paperback: 192 pages Publisher: New Directions (October 31, 2006) ISBN-10: 0811216594 ISBN-13: 978-0811216593 reviewed by Roy Peachey One of the reasons why retirement seems such an attractive option is because I will then be able to work my way through the novels of Charles Dickens. Unfortunately retirement is still many years off and so I [...]
reviewed by John Murphy If laughter is indeed the best medicine, then the collected works of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975) should be prescribed by doctors as a matter of course. It is literally impossible to be downhearted while reading the words of Wodehouse. Believe me, I’ve tried, but then that incomparable fathead, Bertram Wooster, begins [...]
Gallows Humor One of my favorite stories about Evelyn Waugh finds him at a swank Parisian dinner party. After rudely belittling a helpless French intellectual with his characteristic boorishness, the host asked Evelyn how he could be so mean and still call himself a Catholic. “You have no idea,” Waugh answered, “how much nastier I [...]
Snakes and Ladders David Lodge’s Souls and Bodies won the Whitbread Book of the Year award in 1980. Whether it deserved such an honor or not, it is certainly a well-crafted account of British Catholicism circa the era of Vatican II. Lodge charts the spiritual growth (“decay” might be more accurate) of a group of [...]
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