With a star-studded new HBO/BBC adaptation of Brideshead Revisited now being cast, William Cash reveals why Evelyn Waugh’s portrayal of a decadent upper-class Catholic family was banned in 1947 by the Hollywood censors

Teresa Pinfold’s contributions to the letters page – parts of which hint at the pseudonymous correspondent's own concerns, others of which seem more to be an elaborate joke for the correspondent's own entertainment.

It's bad manners to discuss the terrible effects of sin. Waugh, like the authors of the correction, broke the taboo

Two and a half square miles of peculiarity await visitors to the British Overseas Territory

Brideshead Revisited enchants readers with its luscious portrayal of upper-class life. But at its heart is the working of grace

The English literary master first championed the spirited Trappist monk and then grew tired of him

Muriel Spark found Catholicism practical and rational, while Edith Sitwell was receptive to the power of sacramental grace

Waugh was as politically incorrect as it is possible to be