RSSCultural Amnesia e-book review
Forthcoming:
VIDEO (on Slate.com):
Clive James' Talking in the Library new series, including conversations with: actors and authors Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry, actor Jeremy Irons, novelist Nick Hornby, literary biographer Claire Tomalin, literary critic Professor John Carey, and television and film actors and authors Victoria Wood, Catherine Tate and Alexei Sayle. Recorded and produced by SkyArts in May 2007.
As of July 2008:
TEXT:
Guest Writer Marina Hyde digs deep on the crucial subjects of Paris Hilton, Trudie and Sting, and Pete Doherty
GALLERY:
New works by painter Laura Smith, including paintings from her forthcoming exhibition (9 - 13 July 2008 at 54 The Gallery, Shepherd Market, Mayfair, London W1)
VIDEO:
Video Finds: Alessandra Ferri and Sting (Dance), and Laurence Olivier (Actors)
As of June 2008:
TEXT:
Frederic Raphael's foreword to In Love, by Alfred Hayes, and book extracts.
New guest writer Vicki Woods
Mark Steyn on Frank Sinatra's anthem "It Was A Very Good Year"
P.J. O'Rourke's travelogue on China
AUDIO:
Clive James reads out three poems from The Book of My Enemy.
VIDEO:
In the Mood for Love
Mr Hulot's Holiday
As of May 2008:
GALLERY:
"Geneviève Seillé: Beyond Reading", by Roger Cardinal
Four short films by Cordelia Beresford
TEXT:
Guest writer: art critic Laura Cumming
Prose Finds: Paul Berman on Islamism
Clive James: new poem Ghost Train to Australia; on writing lyrics: "My life in lyrics" (Guardian, April 1, 2008) and Cream articles
VIDEO:
Postcard from Berlin
Video Finds: the Silver Rose and Ian Dury
As of April 2008:
TEXT:
Guest writer: film director Peter Bogdanovich
Clive James: "The Perfectly Bad Sentence" and "Meeting MacNeice"
VIDEO:
Video Finds
GALLERY:
Painting: Albert Herbert and Geneviève Seillé
Posted on March 18, 2008:
TEXT:
Prose Finds: David Hepworth on the high-octane, trail-blazing, revolutionary American TV series about the drug war in Baltimore, The Wire.
As of February 2008:
TEXT:
Guest writer Jonathan Meades
Prose Finds: Binyavanga Wainaina writing about Africa; P.J. O'Rourke on the confessions of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr; Noel Pearson on white guilt, victimhood and the radical centre; Patrick Smith on not loving the Airbus A380; Pascal Bruckner defending Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
GALLERY:
Sculptor Georgia Russell
Video and performance artist Éleonore Saintagnan
AUDIO:
Star Australian poets Judith Beveridge, Stephen Edgar, and Les Murray reading their poems.
