Lytal teaches at the Pratt Institute and writes fiction. Clive James has been a fish out of water, a television personality and a poet, a memoirist who befriended Princess Diana . . . and an erudite ...

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 ...

A recent work by the late critic Clive James about his literary idol, Philip Larkin, artfully examines the complex poet’s canon. Philip Larkin’s smallness was important; one of the consolations of his ...

Most writers who are comic in the first instance have fugitive reputations, difficult to import from place to place. But the Australian writer, critic, and essayist (and novelist and poet and ...

Few critics could, without embarrassment, see nearly 35 years of their work collected under the heading "The Essential Essays." But the tribute fits Clive James like aftershave. The Australian-born ...

Do you ever just want to quote someone forever? Reading Clive James’ Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language, struggling to find ways to talk about it, I dreamed of Echo, the nymph ...

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. By The Associated Press Clive James, an Australian ...

"Fiction is life with the dull bits left out." That is just one of the many clever observations of the writer, TV host and cultural critic Clive James, who died at his home in Cambridge, England, on ...

Clive James, a poet, television critic and former ITV presenter, has died after a decade-long battle with cancer. He was 80. James passed away on Sunday at his Cambridge home, according to The ...