English writer Ian Shircore’s book-length study gives Clive James’ poems the loving attention they deserve.
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Author Interview: Writer Clive James — Writing Against the Dying of the Light
Imagine a combination of Stephen Colbert (the real one, that is) and John Updike.
Book Review: Watching TV with Omnicultural Smarts — Clive James’ “Play All”
Clive James is cosmopolitan and learned, but he’s far from a snob.
Book Review: Critic and Poet Clive James—Reading and Writing Until the Lights Go Out
Clive James gets the most out of whatever’s on the page and isn’t shy about making larger connections.
Book Review: “Murder and the Movies” — So Cinematic, the Spectacle of Death
Our awareness of our delight in the homicidal temptations presented by film is itself a kind of twisted comedy that the critic is all too aware of.
The Arts on Stamps of the World —October 7
An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
Fuse Feature: Quotes for the New Year
Some pithy quotes to keep in mind for the New Year.
Fuse Feature: Quotes for the New Year
“Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.”
Arts Commentary: With Friends Like These — The New York Times Explains Why Criticism Matters
The important question the NYTBR Editors fail to ask is whether the traditional definition and values of literary criticism will survive in an age of ebooks and iPads. Is there a primal appetite for criticism? (Edith Wharton says there is, and I believe her.) How will the Internet shape our innate desire to compare, judge, […]
Fuse Remembrance: Heda Kovaly
Translating what became Under a Cruel Star was a labor of love as well as a work of feminism. There were few memoirs around of a life that spanned Nazism and Stalinism. None was written by a woman. By Helen Epstein. Readers of today’s New York Times found a remarkable story on the obituary page: […]