Sunday, December 22, 2019

Gone, but not forgotten …

… Remembering Clive James | Commonweal Magazine. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

James respected and enjoyed both highbrow and lowbrow culture, while maintaining a shrewd sense of how they differed from each other. James loved popular culture, and James was an elitist. And James’s achievement as a critic was in demonstrating that this was not a contradiction. 

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