In Britain, Clive James is known as a Union Jack of all trades: TV presenter, critic, radio host, novelist. He's also been churning out poems for the past 50 years, but by his own admission, the ...

We lost two giants of British Culture this week – and Clive James was definitely that, losing his battle with cancer ten years after his diagnosis. He was a prolific broadcaster, talk show host, ...

Famous for decades in Britain and in his native Australia as an essayist, critic and television presenter, James has latterly gained attention in both those countries for his poems, long a sidelight, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

And so we find this made explicit in a fine poem, Initial Outlay, and throughout this collection, Injury Time, which has James’s characteristic meandering and meditative charm together with an added ...

James (Poetry Notebook 2006–2014), the famous Australian-born British TV personality and cultural critic, muses about his slowed-down, ailing body in moving new verse about illness, debility, and ...

Egyptian gods and pharoahs, “YouTube’s vast cosmopolis,” Degas and Klimt, the War in which his father was captured, and freed, only to die on the way home, Australian sports, Monk (Thelonious, that is ...

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 ...

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 ...