Cultural Amnesia
Clive James' 20th-century canon.
"Alexandra Kollontai: The flaws of Soviet feminism." Posted Feb. 26, 2007.
"Christoph Lichtenberg: Lessons on how to write." Posted March 2, 2007.
"Nadezhda Mandelstam: How one wife's suffering changed how we see Communism." Posted March 6, 2007.
"Lewis Namier: The eccentric historian who changed British postwar culture." Posted March 8, 2007.
"Grigory Ordzhonokidze: When mass murderers repent." Posted March 13, 2007.
"Alfred Polgar: The forgotten wit whom Marlene Dietrich had hoped would write her biography." Posted March 16, 2007.
"Edgar Quinet: The man who understood the true cost of the violent revolution." Posted March 27, 2007. [Note: Because of a production error, this piece appeared after the excerpt about Rainer Maria Rilke.]
"Rainer Maria Rilke: What his career—taken along with Bertolt Brecht's—tells us about fame." Posted March 23, 2007.
"Jean-Paul Sartre: The nothingness at the heart of his philosophy." Posted March 29, 2007.
"Leon Trotsky: He was a mass murderer, not the true champion of the working class." Posted April 2, 2007.
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