NEW YORK (Reuters) - Clive James took 40 years to write his massive new book of essays "Cultural Amnesia" but the 67-year-old Australian critic, memoirist, poet and novelist is already thinking of ...

Of course James could charm a cloaked boatman with his lip. The grim one surely skulked along his cobblestoned Cambridge street, tapped three times on his door with a sharpened scythe. “Clive James?” ...

Latest Readings by Clive James, Yale University Press, 192 pages, $25. What we always have to understand about that magnificent polymath Clive James on this side of the pond is this: the Australian ...

Some writers have blogs. The Australian critic, poet, novelist, television personality, and all-around man of letters, Clive James, is more ambitious than that. And though still unsure of how ...

LONDON (AP) — Clive James, an Australian journalist, joker and intellectual who had a long career as a writer and broadcaster in the U.K., has died. He was 80. James’ representatives, United Agents, ...

Clive James (Australian, Londoner, critic, memoirist, essayist, novelist, and TV personality) is, unbeknownst to many Americans, also a poet. He has published his hilarious, meticulous verse here only ...

Here is Orwell, writing in 1941 on H.G. Wells, then 75 years old: “is it not a sort of parricide for a person of my age (thirty-eight) to find fault with H.G. Wells? Thinking people who were born ...