A guide to 20^th-century culture.

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• Stefan Zweig The incarnation of humanism.
  Clive James April 20, 2007
  
• Isoroku Yamamoto The poet who planned Pearl Harbor.
  Clive James April 17, 2007
  
• Ludwig Wittgenstein In search of the real artichoke.
  Clive James April 12, 2007
  
• Paul Valéry How poets write great poems.
  Clive James April 10, 2007
  
• Dubravka Ugresic A defender of women's rights and a brilliant journalist.
  Clive James April 6, 2007
  
• Leon Trotsky He was a mass murderer, not the true champion of the working class.
  Clive James April 2, 2007
  
• Jean-­Paul Sartre The nothingness at the heart of his philosophy.
  Clive James March 29, 2007
  
• Edgar Quinet The man who understood the true cost of violent revolution.
  Clive James March 27, 2007
  
• Rainer Maria Rilke What his career—taken along with Bertolt Brecht's—tells us about fame.
  Clive James March 23, 2007
  
• Alfred Polgar The forgotten wit who Marlene Dietrich had hoped would write her biography.
  Clive James March 16, 2007
  
• Grigory Ordzhonokidze When mass murderers repent.
  Clive James March 12, 2007
  
• Lewis Namier The eccentric historian who changed British postwar culture.
  Clive James March 8, 2007
  
• Nadezhda Mandelstam How one wife's suffering changed how we see Communism.
  Clive James March 6, 2007
  
• Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Lessons on how to write.
  Clive James March 2, 2007
  
• Alexandra Kollontai The flaws of Soviet feminism.
  Clive James Feb. 26, 2007
  
• Ernst Jünger Did he help Hitler rise?
  Clive James Feb. 23, 2007
  
• Adolf Hitler How the intellectual climate in Germany shaped the future Führer.
  Clive James Feb. 21, 2007
  
• Terry Gilliam What Brazil tells us about torture today.
  Clive James Feb. 20, 2007
  
• Egon Friedell The art of conversation.
  Clive James Feb. 16, 2007
  
• Duke Ellington The supremacy of swing.
  Clive James Feb. 14, 2007
  
• Sergei Diaghilev On generosity, artistic slobs, and dressing to kill.
  Clive James Feb. 12, 2007
  
• Dick Cavett The secret art of the talk-show host
  Clive James Feb. 9, 2007
  
• Jorge Luis Borges Can a great writer be blind to the world around him?
  Clive James Feb. 7, 2007
  
• Cultural Amnesia Clive James' 20th-century canon.
  Feb. 7, 2007
  
• Anna Akhmatova Assessing the Russian poet and femme fatale.
  Clive James Feb. 5, 2007