Clive James
Clive James is the author of many books of criticism, autobiography, fiction, and poetry. His latest and longest book, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts, will be published in the spring. (January 2007)
From the Review
January 11, 2007: Golden Boy
Things I Didn't Know by Robert Hughes
December 21, 2000: Great Days
Dream Stuff by David Malouf
March 27, 1986: Secret Intelligence
Blessings in Disguise by Alec Guinness
October 13, 1983: A Feelthy Penguin
Bawdy Verse: A Pleasant Collection edited by E.J. Burford
April 14, 1983: His Brilliant Career
The Vernacular Republic: Selected Poems by Les A. Murray
December 17, 1981: That Old Black and White Magic
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Howard
Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present edited by Vicki Goldberg
Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography by Peter Galassi
The Work of Atget, Vol. 1: Old France edited by John Szarkowski, edited by Maria Morris Hambourg
The Autochromes of J.H. Lartigue, 1912-1927
The Photography of Max Yavno text by Ben Maddow
Feininger's Chicago, 1941
Cole Weston: Eighteen Photographs foreword by Ben Maddow, introduction by Charis Wilson
American Photographers and the National Parks by Robert Cahn, by Robert Glenn Ketchum
New England Reflections, 1882-1907 photographs by the Howes Brothers, edited by Alan B. Newman, foreword by Richard Wilbur, introduction by Gerald McFarland
Man as Art: New Guinea photographs by Malcolm Kirk, text by Andrew Strathern
Rajasthan: India's Enchanted Land, introduction and photographs by Raghubir Singh, foreword by Satyajit Ray
Falkland Road: Prostitutes of Bombay by Mary Ellen Mark
Nicaragua: June 1978-July 1979 by Susan Meiselas
Visions of China: Photographs by Marc Riboud, 1957-1980 introduction by Orville Schell
The Russians by Vladimir Sichov
William Klein: Photographs profile by John Heilpern
Don McCullin: Hearts of Darkness introduction by John Le Carré
Herbert List: Photographs 1930-1970 by Günter Metken, introduction by Stephen Spender
Robert Rauschenberg Photographs
John Pfahl: Altered Landscapes
Sam Haskins/Photographics
Bill Brandt: Nudes 1945-1980 introduction by Michael Hiley
Hollywood Color Photographs by John Kobal
A Century of Japanese Photography by the Japan Photographers Association, introduction by John W. Dower
March 19, 1981: Laughter in the Dark
The Radiant Future by Alexander Zinoviev, translated by Gordon Clough
Sans Illusions by Alexander Zinoviev, translated by Wladimir Berelowitch
February 5, 1981: Hit Parade
The Oxford Book of Satirical Verse chosen by Geoffrey Grigson
December 18, 1980: The Gentle Slope of Castalia
Photography and Society by Gisèle Freund
Diana and Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography by Janet Malcolm
The Eloquent Light photographs by Ansel Adams, text by Nancy Newhall
Yosemite and the Range of Light photographs by Ansel Adams, introduction by Paul Brooks
Time in New England photographs by Paul Strand, text selected and edited by Nancy Newhall
Brett Weston: Photographs from Five Decades photographs by Brett Weston, text by R.H. Cravens
Water's Edge photographs by Harry Callahan, introductory poem by A.R. Ammons
Harry Callahan: Color photographs and text by Harry Callahan, edited by Robert Tow, by Ricker Winsor
Sudek photographs by Josef Sudek, text by Sonja Bullaty
Lotte Jacobi photographs by Lotte Jacobi, edited by Kelly Wise, introduction by James Fasanelli
Moholy-Nagy: Photographs and Photograms by Laszlo Maholy-Nagy, text by Andreas Haus, translated by Frederic Samson
Beaton photographs by Cecil Beaton, edited with a text by James Danziger
Allure by Diana Vreeland, by Chris Hemphill
Eye for Elegance Company photographs by George Hoyningen-Huene
The Art of the Great Hollywood Portrait Photographers, 1925-1940 by John Kobal
Mrs. David Bailey photographs by David Bailey
Special Collection 24 Photo Lithos by Helmut Newton
Sleepless Nights photographs by Helmut Newton, introduction by Philippe Garner
Women on Women: Twelve Photographic Portfolios with an introduction by Katherine Hollabird
42nd Street Studio photographs by Joyce Baronio, introduction by Linda Nochlin
The Best of Photojournalism, 5: People, Places, and Events of 1979 with an introduction by Tom Brokaw
In China photographs by Eve Arnold
Photographs for the Tsar: The Pioneering Color Photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, Commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II edited by Robert H. Allhouse
Across the Rhine text by Franklin M. Davis Jr.. the editors of Time-Life Books
Private Pictures photographs by Daniel Angeli, by Jean-Paul Dousset, introduction by Anthony Burgess
Dorothea Lange and the Documentary Tradition photographs by Dorothea Lange, text by Karin B. Ohrn
Dialogue with Photography edited by Paul Hill, edited by Thomas Cooper
Photography in the Twentieth Century by Peter Tausk
Fox-Talbot and the Invention of Photography by Gail Buckland
December 4, 1980: Waugh's Last Stand
The Letters of Evelyn Waugh edited by Mark Amory
November 6, 1980: Fannikins's Cunnikin
Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones by Erica Jong
November 8, 1979: On Voznesensky (letter)
August 16, 1979: Voznesensky's Case
Nostalgia for the Present by Andrei Voznesensky, by Vera Dunham, edited by Max Hayward
The Making and Unmaking of a Soviet Writer by Anatoly Gladilin, translated by David Lapeza
April 5, 1979: From the Pit
To Build a Castle—My Life as a Dissenter by Vladimir Bukovsky, translated by Michael Scammell
Alarm and Hope by Andrei D. Sakharov, edited by Efrem Yankelevich, by Alfred Friendly Jr.
November 23, 1978: Looking Backward
1985 by Anthony Burgess
April 20, 1978: Pensée Persons
Kalki by Gore Vidal
October 27, 1977: Go Back to the Cold!
The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré
May 12, 1977: Crossman As Editor (letter)
March 31, 1977: Dissatisfactions of Power
The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, Volume I: Minister of Housing, 1964-1966 by Richard Crossman
The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, Volume II: Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons, 1966-1968 (to be published in August, 1977, by Holt, Rinehart & Winston) by Richard Crossman
April 3, 1975: It Wasn't Freud (letter)
February 20, 1975: Sherlockology
Sherlock Holmes Collected Edition by Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle, with an introduction by Hugh Greene
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle, with an introduction by Graham Greene
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, with an introduction by John Fowles
The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle, with an introduction by Len Deighton
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, with an introduction by Eric Ambler
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, with an introduction by Kingsley Amis
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, with an introduction by Angus Wilson
His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle, with an introduction by Julian Symons
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, with an introduction by C. P. Snow
Sherlock Holmes Detected by Ian McQueen
The London of Sherlock Holmes by Michael Harrison
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes by Michael Harrison
The Return of Moriarty by John Gardner
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, MD as edited by Nicholas Meyer
Naked Is the Best Disguise by Samuel Rosenberg
The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook edited by Peter Haining