FILE - In this April 24, 1997 file photo, Clive James arrives at the Royal Albert Hall for the BAFTA award ceremony. James, an Australian journalist, joker and intellectual who had a long career as a ...

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 ...

When I heard that Clive James was posting video interviews on the Web, I immediately began begging him to let us have them for Slate. When I lived in Britain in the late 1980s, James was my favorite ...

“My God, how hard it is to die!” Thus murmured General Franco, amid his last excruciatingly protracted illness. But there must have been times when Clive James, diagnosed with leukemia a decade back, ...

Though many Americans know him through his columns for The Atlantic and the New York Review of Books, Clive James inhabits a much larger, diverse role in British culture. This man of letters is a ...

Do you ever just want to quote someone forever? Reading Clive James’ Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language, struggling to find ways to talk about it, I dreamed of Echo, the nymph ...

When writers develop terminal illnesses, we get the rare chance—if we're lucky—to see them publicly cope with the dying process. Clive James in 1976. (Photo: Getty Images) “You’re sounding remarkably ...

Clive James has a high-maintenance girlfriend: the reader. To educate this girlfriend, to correct her wayward mind and haphazard schooling, Clive James has a high-maintenance girlfriend: the reader.

In his Atlantic piece “Hollywood: A Love Story,” the Aussie critic Clive James takes on David Thomson and his freshly reupholstered “Biographical Dictionary of Film,” in which Thomson writes with ...

Lytal teaches at the Pratt Institute and writes fiction. Clive James has been a fish out of water, a television personality and a poet, a memoirist who befriended Princess Diana . . . and an erudite ...

LONDON — Clive James, an Australian journalist, joker and intellectual who had a long career as a writer and broadcaster in the U.K., has died. He was 80. James’ representatives, United Agents, said ...