Ninety years ago, in October 1932, the English satirist Evelyn Waugh published his third novel Black Mischief.He’d had a hit two years prior with Vile Bodies, a novel that made famous (even as ...

BLACK MISCHIEF — Evelyn Waugh— Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). What Aldous Huxley was to the generation still anxiously calling itself "young," Evelyn Waugh is becoming to the ...

AT FEVER PITCH (255 pp.)—David Caute—Pantheon ($3.95).For obvious reasons, British writers are tops when it comes to describing disintegrating empires. To do the job properly, especially in ...

Seeking something light to read following the Christmas doldrums I decided to look into what I remembered as one of the funniest of Evelyn Waugh’s comic novels, Black Mischief. I discovered that ...

A reconsideration of Evelyn Waugh’s novel Black Mischief. From early manhood Waugh was a tireless traveler, often to countries where the weather, both physical and political, was inhospitable. During ...