Department Index
Clive's Lives 2007:
A guide to 20th-century culture.
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- Stefan Zweig The incarnation of humanism.
April 20, 2007 - Isoroku Yamamoto The poet who planned Pearl Harbor.
April 17, 2007 - Ludwig Wittgenstein In search of the real artichoke.
April 12, 2007 - Paul Valéry How poets write great poems.
April 10, 2007 - Dubravka Ugresic A defender of women's rights and a brilliant journalist.
April 6, 2007 - Leon Trotsky He was a mass murderer, not the true champion of the working class.
April 2, 2007 - Jean-Paul Sartre The nothingness at the heart of his philosophy.
March 29, 2007 - Edgar Quinet The man who understood the true cost of violent revolution.
March 27, 2007 - Rainer Maria Rilke What his career—taken along with Bertolt Brecht's—tells us about fame.
March 23, 2007 - Alfred Polgar The forgotten wit who Marlene Dietrich had hoped would write her biography.
March 16, 2007 - Grigory Ordzhonokidze When mass murderers repent.
March 12, 2007 - Lewis Namier The eccentric historian who changed British postwar culture.
March 8, 2007 - Nadezhda Mandelstam How one wife's suffering changed how we see Communism.
March 6, 2007 - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Lessons on how to write.
March 2, 2007 - Alexandra Kollontai The flaws of Soviet feminism.
Feb. 26, 2007 - Ernst Jünger Did he help Hitler rise?
Feb. 23, 2007 - Adolf Hitler How the intellectual climate in Germany shaped the future Führer.
Feb. 21, 2007 - Terry Gilliam What Brazil tells us about torture today.
Feb. 20, 2007 - Egon Friedell The art of conversation.
Feb. 16, 2007 - Duke Ellington The supremacy of swing.
Feb. 14, 2007 - Sergei Diaghilev On generosity, artistic slobs, and dressing to kill.
Feb. 12, 2007 - Dick Cavett The secret art of the talk-show host
Feb. 9, 2007 - Jorge Luis Borges Can a great writer be blind to the world around him?
Feb. 7, 2007 - Cultural Amnesia Clive James' 20th-century canon.
Feb. 7, 2007 - Anna Akhmatova Assessing the Russian poet and femme fatale.
Feb. 5, 2007
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