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This Is This (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Stockhausen? I’m sorry, I didn’t quite hear that, what? I see. I also watched an interview with Clive James and Nick Hornby, which was awesome. My words can’t express how much I admire him Clive James. I don’t have the talent. He’d have no trouble, which is why I do. He was talking about the struggle to read books he thinks he should read instead of getting pleasure...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
This is not the first time Brits have made a grab for Aussies - last month a British newspaper pleaded with Australians living in the UK not to head home amid concerns a looming recession and plummeting pound are fueling an exodus. The Times praised the cultural contribution of famous Australians who have made Britain home, including Barry Humphries, Clive James and Germaine Greer as...
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ffranc sais (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Today is the centenary of one of the great twentieth-century novelists. He is described in Clive James's critical note as a popular novelist, which he certainly was, but he also painfully analysed flawed relationships and the flaws in good men. No doubt his day job as an industrial psychologist (possibly the first in the UK) before the second world war informed his best work. James...
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Merthyr Express (icWales) (Free subscription) | yesterday
... History of Queensland facing stiff competition from such literary glitterati as Germaine Greer and Clive James.He eventually lost out to Philip Jones and his book Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers, chronicling the stories behind Aboriginal artefacts and their part in Australia’s frontier history.“The prize is a very large one so it was very hotly contested,”...
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Reading matters (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... claim him as an Aussie, but I believe he has taken out citizenship), Peter Carey, Tim Winton and Clive James. Meanwhile, Germaine Greer's S hakespeare's Wife makes the non-fiction cut. Celebrities recommend books to read this Christmas in The Times . Please note all those celebrities taking part have books to flog. Hmm... The fiction list , chosen by the newspaper's Kate Saunders,...
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And Another Thing (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Terrific Clive James column on Radio Four this morning about "The Baader Meinhof Complex" and how the movies can't help glamorising terrorism, reducing complex, terrible events to a set of easy-to-read symbols and ignoring facts and people that don't fit within that narrative. This chimes with today's news coverage about Mumbai which is already all about Indian cabinet ministers resigning , the possibility...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
When a movie dramatises the lives and times of an easy on the eye bunch such as Germany's Baader Meinhof gang, it does tend to glamorise the murder and kidnapping they got up to, says Clive James.
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First Drafts (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
... including the West, dealt in slaves, only the West came up with the idea of setting them free.’ (Clive James) * ‘I have been reading the ancient Chinese military classics…’ (Edward Luttwak) * ‘ The Broken Word (Cape), Adam Foulda’s brilliant long poem about the Mau-Mau, was snippily reviewed by Stephen Knight in the TLS by Stephen Knight. Knight was more fulsome to Michael Hofmann,...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
"Poms beg Aussies to stay," said one typical headline in Brisbane's Courier Mail. After trumpeting Britain's acknowledgement of the contribution made by such iconic figures as Clive James and Germaine Greer (the identity of whom most young Australians are not quite sure) the paper just couldn't help offering 33 well worn reasons why Australia is much better than Britain.
