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Stefan Zweig
The incarnation of humanism.  
Clive James   Apr 20, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Isoroku Yamamoto
The poet who planned Pearl Harbor.  
Clive James   Apr 17, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Ludwig Wittgenstein
In search of the real artichoke.  
Clive James   Apr 12, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Paul Valéry
How poets write great poems.  
Clive James   Apr 10, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Dubravka Ugresic
A defender of women's rights and a brilliant journalist.  
Clive James   Apr 06, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Leon Trotsky
He was a mass murderer, not the true champion of the working class.  
Clive James   Apr 02, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Jean-­Paul Sartre
The nothingness at the heart of his philosophy.  
Clive James   Mar 29, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Edgar Quinet
The man who understood the true cost of violent revolution.  
Clive James   Mar 27, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Rainer Maria Rilke
What his career—taken along with Bertolt Brecht's—tells us about fame.  
Clive James   Mar 23, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Alfred Polgar
The forgotten wit who Marlene Dietrich had hoped would write her biography.  
Clive James   Mar 16, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Grigory Ordzhonokidze
When mass murderers repent.  
Clive James   Mar 12, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Lewis Namier
The eccentric historian who changed British postwar culture.  
Clive James   Mar 08, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Nadezhda Mandelstam
How one wife's suffering changed how we see Communism.  
Clive James   Mar 06, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Lessons on how to write.  
Clive James   Mar 02, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Alexandra Kollontai
The flaws of Soviet feminism.  
Clive James   Feb 26, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Ernst Jünger
Did he help Hitler rise?  
Clive James   Feb 23, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Adolf Hitler
How the intellectual climate in Germany shaped the future Führer.  
Clive James   Feb 21, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Terry Gilliam
What Brazil tells us about torture today.  
Clive James   Feb 20, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Egon Friedell
The art of conversation.  
Clive James   Feb 16, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Duke Ellington
The supremacy of swing.  
Clive James   Feb 14, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Sergei Diaghilev
On generosity, artistic slobs, and dressing to kill.  
Clive James   Feb 12, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Dick Cavett
The secret art of the talk-show host  
Clive James   Feb 09, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Cultural Amnesia
Clive James' 20th-century canon.  
  Feb 07, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Jorge Luis Borges
Can a great writer be blind to the world around him?  
Clive James   Feb 07, 2007   Clive's Lives  
Anna Akhmatova
Assessing the Russian poet and femme fatale.  
Clive James   Feb 05, 2007   Clive's Lives  

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