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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clive James, a poet, television critic and former ITV presenter, has died after a decade-long battle with cancer. He was 80. James ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Fiction is life with the dull bits left out." That is just one of the many clever observations of the writer, TV host and cultural critic Clive James, who died at his home in Cambridge, England, on ...

“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, ...

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 ...

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 he died ...

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. By The Associated Press Clive James, an Australian ...