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    A Bingewatcher's Notebook

    by Clive James ...
    "A loving and breezy set of essays" on today's most addictive TV shows from "an incisive and hilarious critic" ( Slate).Television is not what it once was. Award-winning author and critic Clive James spent decades covering the medium, and witnessed a radical change in content, format, and programming, and in the very manner in which TV is watched.Here he examines this unique cultural revolution, ... Read more

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    by Clive James ...
    "[A] collection of Clive James's essays on a variety of literary topics . . . This is sanity, humor and acuity in the face of death" ( The Wall Street Journal).In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do," James moved his library to his Cambridge house, where he would ... Read more

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  • Unreliable Memoirs

    by Clive James ...
    A best-selling classic around the world, Clive James’s hilarious memoir has long been unavailable in the United States.Before James Frey famously fabricated his memoir, Clive James wrote a refreshingly candid book that made no claims to be accurate, precise, or entirely truthful, only to entertain. In an exercise of literary exorcism, James set out to put his childhood in Australia behind him by ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Divine Comedy

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    Translated by Clive James ...
    “Under James’s uncanny touch, seven long centuries drop away, and the great poem is startlingly fresh and new.”—Stephen GreenblattThe Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James’s translation—decades in the making—gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language

    by Clive James ...
    Legendary poet and critic Clive James provides an unforgettably eloquent book on how to read and appreciate modern poetry.Since its initial publication, Poetry Notebook has become a must-read for any lover of poetry. Somewhat of an iconoclast, Clive James gets to the heart of truths about poetry not always addressed, “some hard” but always “firmly committed to celebration” (Martin Amis). He ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Cultural Amnesia

    Necessary Memories from History and the Arts

    by Clive James ...
    "I can't remember when I've learned as much from something I've read—or laughed as much while doing it." —Jacob Weisberg, SlateThis international bestseller is an encyclopedic A-Z masterpiece—the perfect introduction to the very core of Western humanism. Clive James rescues, or occasionally destroys, the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Cultural Cohesion: The Essential Essays

    by Clive James ...
    Clive James presents the “prequel” to his celebrated Cultural Amnesia—forty-nine essays that form a cultural education in one brilliant volume.Six years after the much-heralded publication of Cultural Amnesia, Clive James presents his “prequel”—forty-nine essays that he has selected as the best of his half-century career. Originally appearing as As of This Writing, Cultural Cohesion examines the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Collected Poems

    1958-2015

    by Clive James ...
    The “technically and emotionally heart-stopping poems” (Spectator) of Clive James are collected in this decades-spanning volume.The poetry of Clive James has been delighting readers and winning awards for decades. His recent poems looking back over his extraordinarily rich life have brought him an even wider readership; some, such as “Japanese Maple” (first published in The New Yorker), became ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Inferno

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    Translated by Clive James ...
    Dante's immortal vision of Hell shines "as it never did before in English verse" (Edward Mendelson) in Clive James's new translation of Inferno.The most captivating part of perhaps the greatest epic poem ever written, Dante's Inferno still holds the power to thrill and inspire. The medieval equivalent of a thriller, Inferno follows Dante and his faithful guide, Virgil, as they traverse the complex ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Collected Poems

    1944-1979

    by Kingsley Amis ...
    Series series NYRB Poets
    Kingsley Amis’s poetry tackles all the grimly humorous subjects he tackled in his novels—lust, lost love, booze, money and the lack of it, old age, death—and does so with immense formal poise. A master of both traditional and unconventional meters with a perfect ear for parody, Amis wrote satires, epigrams, and rueful and scornful songs that are remarkable not only for their virtuosity and humor ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Meaning of Recognition

    Essays 2001-2005

    by Clive James ...
    With essays taking the reader from London to Bali, theatre to library and from election campaigns to television, The Meaning of Recognition collects the best of Clive James on art, culture and politics from 2001–2005.Whether analysing Bing Crosby, Bruno Schulz or Shakespeare, celebrating The Sopranos and The West Wing, or lamenting the decline of Formula One, Clive James writes with style and ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Sentenced to Life

    Poems

    by Clive James ...
    "There is an inevitable sadness to this moving collection. This being James, there are also moments of zinging energy and a sense of fun…James will remain in the present tense as those Japanese Maple's leaves continue to turn to flame." —Rebecca K. Morrison, IndependentIn this new collection of "technically and emotionally heart-stopping poems" (Spectator)—including "Japanese Maple," which was ... Read more

    $21.59 USD