Clive James

Jan 11, 2024 | shepherd.com | Kazuo Ishiguro |Richard C. Morais |Deborah Levy |Déborah Levy |Clive James

From the list onthinking deeper about the human condition. By Richard C. MoraisAuthorWho am I? I am a journalist and a novelist. I was both Forbes Magazine’s longest serving foreign correspondent – having served 18 years in London as their European Bureau Chief – and wrote the feel-good international best-seller The Hundred-Foot Journey, a novel that Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey made into a much-loved 2014 film starring Helen Mirren.

Jan 1, 2024 | conservativewoman.co.uk | John Hale |Clive James

The Fire of Joy by Clive James; Picador, 2020CLIVE James, eyesight impaired by surgery, was unable to read when he began composing The Fire of Joy, and he knew he was not far from death. This 300-page book is a semi-autobiographical salute to his great original love – poetry. He knew the 80-ish poems in the book by heart, and chose them from several hundred stored in his memory. Some you may know, others will be discoveries.

Oct 12, 2023 | vnexplorer.net | Harry Giles |Clive James |Raymond Antrobus |Rupi Kaur

1. The Bell Jar, 2. Deep Wheel Orcadia, 3. Somewhere Becoming Rain, 4. All The Names Given, 5. Milk and Honey, 6. The Wild Fox of Yemen, 7. The Stone Age, 8. Hiddensee, 9. Wedding Readings and Poems, 10. My Darling from the Lions. As the literary world continues to grow, so does the number of amazing poetry books being published each year. If you're looking for something new to read, check out the list of the top 10 best poetry books of all time.

Jul 26, 2023 | theguardian.com | Clive James

Writings and Drawings by Bob Dylan (Cape, £2.50)For a gentle but rapidly ageing generation, no book ever asked to be read to pieces like Writings and Drawings by Bob Dylan. Helpfully, Jonathan Cape have bound its 300-plus pages in pink cardboard, so that it can come to pieces more easily. Its right to pride of place on the rock culture’s short shelf of indispensable writings will be unchallenged. Dylan is the most talented single songwriter of modern times.

Oct 16, 2022 | tomrowley.substack.com | Clive James