The Independentflipped into VoicesOpinion The Top 10: chiasmuses, or reversal aphorisms independent.co.uk - John Rentoul Suggested by Jon Salt, starting with the most famous one, no 6, written by Ted Sorenson for JFK. The Oxford dictionary defines chiasmus as “a …
flbd216n3j0iiu4flipped into Storys Of InterestUnited Kingdom UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit election win set to benefit Australians dailymail.co.uk - By Stephen Johnson For Daily Mail Australia Australians are set to be Brexit's biggest winners from farmers to young people wanting a working visa to live it up in London. UK Prime Minister …
The Independentflipped into Arts & EntertainmentEntertainment (UK) I'm a Celebrity 2019 final, review: Ant and Dec's knowingly awful puns added to the agony independent.co.uk - Sean O'Grady Not quite a once-in-a-generation decision this one, but maybe a welcome distraction to the substantial proportion of the population, who are tired of …
The Telegraphflipped into BooksBooks Somewhere Becoming Rain by Clive James review: finding the light in Larkin The Telegraph - By Tristram Fane SaundersSince the news broke last week of Clive James’s death, aged 80, I’ve read a dozen tributes to his gifts as a critic – his humour, his concision, his warmth. None of them quite captured what made his reviews
Bruce Sarbitflipped into BOOKS OF SANDPoetry Is Larkin good for you? drb.ie - Johnny Lyons Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin, by Clive James, Picador, 95 pp, £12.99, ISBN: 978-1529028829 In a brief interview …
The Arts Railroaded: Why the arts is vitally important to all Australians theage.com.au - Jason Steger It's possible to see all this as simply more of the same from recent governments. According to Melbourne University associate professor Jo Caust, who …
The SpectatorAustralian Universities Clive’s noble cause | The Spectator The Spectator - James DelingpoleThe great Clive James died on the same day as the great Jonathan Miller but I know which one I admire more. Anyone can be born a poly-math genius. But it takes special moral courage to stray outside your
Passionfish12flipped into Ruh Şarkı Sözleri Books Remembering the genius of Clive James | The Spectator The Spectator - Sam Leith‘Clive James Stirs.’ That was the standard subject line for the emails I used to get from the great Australian polymath. I liked it. It cast him, I thought, as a sort of barnacled kraken — still hanging
South China Morning Post flipped into Post MagHong Kong How Clive James’ Hong Kong connection inspired his poetry and leaving Australia allowed him to flourish South China Morning Post - Jason Wordie Since its mid-19th century beginnings, Hong Kong has figured – however tangentially – in the lives of many internationally acclaimed literary, …
Knives They Don’t Make Movies Like Knives Out Anymore slate.com - Stephen Metcalf Copy your ad-free feed link below to load into your player: New York Times critic Dwight Garner says, “The Slate Culture Gabfest is one of the …
Open CultureCulture Clive James & Jonathan Miller (Both RIP) Talk Together About How the Brain Works openculture.com - by Colin Marshall "Were they the last representatives of a special kind of public intellectual?" asks John Mullen in the Guardian. He writes of Clive James and Jonathan …
Walter Benjamin Cultural Critic, Cultural Christian firstthings.com - Peter J. Leithart Clive James died on November 24, 2019, nearly a decade after being diagnosed with leukemia. Born in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia, in 1939, he …
The Ringerflipped into MoviesMovies Kamala Drops Out, ‘The Irishman’ Reviews, and RIP, Clive James theringer.com - Bryan Curtis, David Shoemaker Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker discuss Kamala Harris dropping out of the 2020 race (03:00), the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week (18:15), Martin …
The Scotsmanflipped into Top StoriesEdinburgh Festival “Schwarzenegger man dies”: Why Clive James was my hero – Aidan Smith scotsman.com - Aidan Smith Clive James once said he expected his obituary to be headlined with reference to one of his better-known gags, but there were so many good lines that …
Guardian USflipped into CultureOpinion Clive James was a great TV critic, but don’t forget Nancy Banks-Smith The Guardian - LettersI have nothing against Clive James, but the claim that he “single-handedly turned TV criticism into an art form” (Digested week, 30 November) is not something that those of us who used to turn first in
New Statesmanflipped into New StatesmanOpinion Friends reunited: Clive James and the New Statesman newstatesman.com - Tom Gatti Over the past five years, as James defied his bleak prognosis, he published some of his finest poems in the NS. Clive James’s career as a writer began …
The Guardianflipped into Comment is FreeOpinion Clive James and Jonathan Miller had confidence in the wits of their viewers The Guardian - John MullanDeath is usually good for sales. The assistants in the largest London branch of Waterstone’s report that, on Wednesday afternoon, almost all the fairly small stock of books by Clive James disappeared the
Books – bookforum.com - www.bookforum.com Australian critic, poet, and TV personality Clive James died last week. The author of many books (including Cultural Amnesia, which included …
Conservative View The Three-Century Latin Dictionary, Life as a Concert Pianist, and Molière as Author | The American Conservative theamericanconservative.com - www.theamericanconservative.com As most of you know, Clive James died last week. He was 80 years old. Robert McCrum tries to put his finger on “the essential Clive James” in The …
Hong KongHKFP Lens: Hong Kong sees fresh unrest as police fire tear gas during protest showdown in Kowloon | Hong Kong Free Press hongkongfp.com - HKFP Lens Hong Kong saw fresh clashes on Sunday as police fired tear gas during a showdown with pro-democracy protesters across Kowloon after a brief lull in …
Guardian USflipped into Comment is FreeOpinion The playful pair who pricked the grim respectability of postwar British culture The Guardian - Nicci GerrardFor decades, the two men were at the heart of British cultural life, both as theoreticians and practitioners James had a late flowering during his time of slow dying, though Miller’s last years of frailty
Culture Decantedflipped into art, literature and film trends :: culture decantedLong-form Journalism Clive James Got It Right The New Yorker - Adam GopnikAppetite was his great engine, but appraisal was his greatest gift. Most writers who are comic in the first instance have fugitive reputations, difficult to import from place to place. But the Australian
The Guardianflipped into Top StoriesPoetry Clive James: the last interview The Guardian - Rachel CookeJournalists shouldn’t interview people they know, or even (I think) acquaintances with whom they’re friendly. But in September I broke this rule, and went to Cambridge to talk to Clive James about his
The TelegraphPoetry Clive James’s true gift to us was his magnificent poetry The Telegraph - Jake KerridgeFor most of his dazzling career, Clive James’s besotted audience thought of him as, in The New Yorker’s phrase, “a brilliant bunch of guys”: chat show host, documentary maker, television critic, literary
Cornucopiaflipped into BREXIT : THE LEAVING PHASE 2019Brexit Labour saying they’ll respect the referendum vote and deliver Brexit? Leave it out thesun.co.uk - Tony Parsons IN the 11 days before the General Election, this panicked Labour Party are going to lie through their weasel teeth that they really respect the …
The Guardianflipped into Comment is FreeOpinion Enough of the euphemisms. Let’s talk about death openly and honestly The Guardian - Kathryn MannixThe dying are grateful for an opportunity to discuss their wishes, but people around them often feel too uneasy Not for the first time, I find myself playing death-euphemism bingo as TV and radio news
Books Remembering Clive James: “Dying turned out to be just what he needed.” stanford.edu - bookhaven.stanford.edu Bryan Appleyard has written a vibrant retrospective in The Times of London with the title (don’t blame him for it; he didn’t write it): “From Plato to …
Guardian USflipped into CultureTV ‘Clive James would have been a national treasure if only he’d taken himself more seriously’ The Guardian - John NaughtonMemories of his witticisms tend to obscure the fact that he was also a gifted, insightful critic John Naughton His description of the naked Arnold Schwarzenegger as “a brown condom full of walnuts” is
Guardian USflipped into CultureTV Clive James was the Mozart of TV criticism, and we are just Salieris The Guardian - Euan FergusonHe was a poet but crucially a wordsmith. Clive James loved television but it has served him ill since his death: all clodhopping telly can do is rerun clips of a plump James laughing at the Japanese. gives
Financial TimesArt The high-low legacies of Jonathan Miller and Clive James Financial Times - Sam LeithWould Clive James or Jonathan Miller have been the more annoyed that they died within a week of each other? Imagine these two big, fragile egos — James described himself to me in 2017 as “about as conceited