by Clive James
Alain-Fournier, ref1, ref2
Albee, Edward, ref1
Alcibiades, ref1
Alexander Severus, Emperor of Rome, ref1
Ali, Ayaan Hirsi, ref1, ref2
Ali, Tariq, ref1
Alice Springs, ref1
Allen, Woody, ref1
Allyson, June, ref1
Almodóvar, Pedro, ref1
Altenberg, Peter, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Alvarez, A., ref1
Amis, Kingsley, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Amis, Martin, ref1, ref2, ref3
Andreas-Salomé, Lou, ref1
Andropov, Yuri, ref1, ref2
Annan, Kofi, ref1
Antony, Mark, ref1
Arafat, Yasser, ref1, ref2
Aragon, Louis, ref1, ref2
Archer, Jeffrey, ref1, ref2
Arendt, Hannah, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Ariosto, Ludovico, ref1
Aristophanes, ref1, ref2
Aristotle, ref1
Arkin, Alan, ref1
Arletty, ref1, ref2
Armstrong, Louis, ref1, ref2
Aron, Raymond, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Ashbery, John, ref1
Ashkenazy, Vladimir, ref1
Assouline, Pierre, ref1
Astaire, Fred, ref1, ref2
Astre de la Vigerie, Emmanuel d’, ref1
Aubrey, John, ref1
Auchinleck, Claude, ref1
Auden, W. H., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13
Auerbach, Erich, ref1
Augustus, Emperor of Rome, ref1, ref2
Austen, Jane, ref1, ref2
Autolycus, ref1
Avernheimer, Raoul, ref1
Avril, Jane, ref1
Axelrod, George, ref1
Baba (tango fan), ref1
Bach, Johann Sebastian, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bahr, Hermann, ref1
Bailey, Derek, ref1
Bailey, Philip, ref1
Baker, Nicholson, ref1
Bakst, Léon, ref1
Bakunin, Mikhail, ref1
Balanchine, George, ref1, ref2, ref3
Baldick, Robert, ref1
Balzac, Honoré de, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Bankhead, Tallulah, ref1
Barber, Samuel, ref1
Barbey d’Aurevilly, Jules-Amédée, ref1
Barbirolli, John, ref1
Barenboim, Daniel, ref1
Barker, George, ref1
Bar Lev, Chaim, ref1
Barres, Maurice, ref1
Baryshnikov, Mikhail, ref1
Basie, William “Count,” ref1, ref2
Baudelaire, Charles-Pierre, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Baudrillard, Jean, ref1, ref2
Bauer, Felice, ref1
Baxter, John, ref1
Bayley, John, ref1
Beach, Sylvia, ref1
Beauvoir, Simone de, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Beaverbrook, Baron, ref1, ref2
Beccaria, Cesare, Marquis of, ref1
Bechet, Sidney, ref1
Beethoven, Ludwig van, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Begin, Menachem, ref1
Beiderbecke, Bix, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Bellini, Vincenzo, ref1, ref2
Belloc, Hilaire, ref1, ref2
Bellow, Saul, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bely, Andrei, ref1
Bene, Edvard, ref1
Ben-Gurion, David, ref1
Benjamin, Walter, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Benois, Aleksandr, ref1
Béraud, Henri, ref1
Berberova, Nina, ref1, ref2
Berdyayev, Nikolay, ref1
Berg, Alban Maria Johannes, ref1
Berger, Gerhard, ref1
Beria, Lavrenty, ref1, ref2
Berlin, Isaiah, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Berman, Paul, ref1
Bernard, Jeffrey, ref1
Bernstein, Leonard, ref1
Best, George, ref1
Bevin, Ernest, ref1
bin Ladin, Osama, ref1
Bishop, Elizabeth, ref1
Bizet, Georges, ref1, ref2
Bjoerling, Jussi, ref1
Blainey, Geoffrey, ref1
Blair, Tony, ref1, ref2, ref3
Blavatsky, Helena, ref1
Blesh, Rudi, ref1
Blobel, Paul, ref1
Bloch, Ernst, ref1
Bloch, Marc, ref1, ref2, ref3
Blunck, Hans-Friedrich, ref1
Bogart, Humphrey, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bohlen, Charles “Chip,” ref1, ref2
Böhm, Karl, ref1
Bohr, Niels, ref1
Bohrer, Karl Heinz, ref1
Bonnard, Pierre, ref1
Borges, Jorge Luis, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Borgnine, Ernest, ref1
Bormann, Martin, ref1, ref2
Borutin, Sidonie Nadherny von, ref1, ref2, ref3
Boswell, James, ref1
Boulting, Ingrid, ref1
Bowlby, John, ref1
Braak, Menno ter, ref1
Brabham, Jack, ref1
Braddon, Russell, ref1
Brahms, Caryl, ref1
Brahms, Johannes, ref1, ref2
Branagh, Kenneth, ref1
Brancusi, Constantin, ref1
Brandauer, Klaus Maria, ref1
Brando, Marlon, ref1, ref2
Brasillach, Robert, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Brassens, Georges, ref1
Brasseur, Pierre, ref1
Braun, Eva, ref1
Brecht, Bertolt, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14
Breker, Arno, ref1
Brel, Jacques, ref1
Brendel, Alfred, ref1, ref2
Brezhnev, Leonid, ref1, ref2, ref3
Brickhill, Paul, ref1, ref2
Bricmont, Jean, ref1
Broch, Hermann, ref1
Brod, Max, ref1
Brodney, Oscar, ref1
Brodsky, Josef, ref1, ref2
Bronnen, Arnolt, ref1
Bronzino, Agnolo, ref1
Brooks, Mel, ref1
Brown, Frederick, ref1
Browne, Thomas, ref1, ref2
Browning, Robert, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Bruce, Lenny, ref1, ref2
Bruckner, Josef Anton, ref1, ref2
Brummell, Beau, ref1
Büchner, Friedrich, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Buckle, Richard, ref1
Bukharin, Nicolay, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bullock, Alan, ref1, ref2
Bundy, McGeorge, ref1
Bunge, Gustav von, ref1
Buñuel, Luis, ref1
Burckhardt, Jacob, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Burgess, Anthony, ref1
Burke, Edmund, ref1, ref2, ref3
Burleigh, Michael, ref1, ref2
Burns, Robert, ref1
Burrows, Abe, ref1
Burton, Richard, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Bush, George W., ref1
Bush, Kate, ref1
Busoni, Ferrnuccio, ref1, ref2
Bussell, Darcey, ref1, ref2
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Cade, Jack, ref1
Cadicamo, Enrico, ref1
Cage, John, ref1
Caligula, Emperor of Rome, ref1
Callas, Maria, ref1
Callow, Simon, ref1
Calvino, Italo, ref1, ref2
Cameron, James, ref1
Camões, Luíz Vaz de, ref1
Camus, Albert, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15
Canetti, Elias, ref1
Canning, George, ref1
Čapek, Karel, ref1, ref2
Capone, Al, ref1
Capote, Truman, ref1, ref2
Caracalla, Emperor of Rome, ref1
Caravaggio, ref1
Carey, John, ref1, ref2
Carney, Harry, ref1
Carroll, Lewis, ref1
Carson, Johnny, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Carter, William C., ref1
Casanova, Giovanni Giacomo, ref1
Casares, Maria, ref1
Casaubon, Edward, ref1
Castro, Fidel, ref1, ref2, ref3
Catullus, ref1
Cavafy, Constantine, ref1, ref2
Cavett, Dick, ref1, ref2
Ceauşescu, Elena, ref1
Ceauşescu, Nicolae, ref1, ref2
Celan, Paul, ref1
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Cervantes, Miguel de, ref1
Chamfort, ref1
Chandler, Raymond, ref1, ref2
Chanel, Gabrielle “Coco,” ref1
Chang, Jung, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Chaplin, Charles, ref1, ref2, ref3
Chardonne, Jacques, ref1
Charisse, Cyd, ref1
Charteris, Leslie, ref1, ref2, ref3
Chateaubriand, François-Auguste-René de, ref1, ref2
Chaucer, Geoffrey, ref1
Chaudhuri, Nirad C., ref1
Chekhov, Anton, ref1, ref2, ref3
Chénier, André, ref1, ref2
Chesterton, G. K., ref1
Chevalier, Maurice, ref1
Chicago, ref1
Chile, ref1
China, ref1
Chopin, Frédéric, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Christian, Charlie, ref1, ref2
Churchill, Winston, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Cicero, ref1
Cioran, E. M., ref1, ref2
Clare, George, ref1, ref2, ref3
Clark, Jim, ref1
Clark, Kenneth, ref1, ref2, ref3
Clarke, Alan, ref1
Claudel, Paul, ref1
Clausewitz, Carl von, ref1
Cobb, Richard, ref1
Cocteau, Jean, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, ref1, ref2, ref3
Collingwood, R. G., ref1
Coltrane, John, ref1, ref2, ref3
Comden, Betty, ref1
Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur, ref1
Connolly, Cyril, ref1, ref2
Conrad, Joseph, ref1, ref2
Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, ref1
Contini, Gianfranco, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Cooper, Gary, ref1
Cooper, James Fenimore, ref1
Copland, Aaron, ref1
Coppola, Francis Ford, ref1
Corbière, Tristan, ref1
Coriolanus, ref1
Cortázar, Julio, ref1
Cortot, Alfred, ref1
Corvo, Baron, ref1
Costa-Gavras, ref1
Costner, Kevin, ref1
Cousteau, Jacques, ref1
Covent Garden, ref1
Cowley, Malcolm, ref1
Crane, Hart, ref1
Crawford, Cindy, ref1
Crawford, Joan, ref1
Cripps, Stafford, ref1
Croce, Benedetto, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13
Crossman, R. H. S., ref1
Cummings, E. E., ref1, ref2
Curtis, Tony, ref1, ref2
Curtius, Ernst Robert, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Cuvilliés, François de, ref1
Czechoslovakia, ref1
Dahl, Roald, ref1
Dalton, Audrey, ref1
D’Annunzio, Gabriele, ref1
Dante Alighieri, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14
Darío, Rubén, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Darwin, Charles, ref1
Davies, Marion, ref1
Davis, Miles, ref1
de Bernières, Louis, ref1
Debray, Regis, ref1, ref2
Debussy, Claude, ref1, ref2, ref3
Defoe, Daniel, ref1
Degas, Edgar, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
de Gaulle, Anne, ref1
de Gaulle, Charles, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
de Gaulle, Elisabeth, ref1
DeLillo, Don, ref1
Del Sarto, Andrea, ref1, ref2, ref3
Demosthenes, ref1
Deneuve, Catherine, ref1
De Niro, Robert, ref1, ref2
Denk, Bertha Maria, ref1
De Quincey, Thomas, ref1
Derrida, Jacques, ref1, ref2
Desai, Anita, ref1
Descartes, René, ref1
Desmoulins, Camille, ref1
Desosse, Valentin le, ref1
D’Este, Carlo, ref1
Deutsch, Babette, ref1
Diaghilev, Sergei, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Diamond, I. A. L., ref1
DiCaprio, Leonardo, ref1
Dickens, Charles, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Dietrich, Marlene, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Diocletian, Emperor of Rome, ref1
Dirks, Carl, ref1, ref2
Discépolo, Enrique Santos, ref1
Disraeli, Benjamin, ref1
Domitian, Emperor of Rome, ref1, ref2
Donen, Stanley, ref1
Dönitz, Karl, ref1
Donne, John, ref1, ref2, ref3
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Douglas, Alfred, Lord, ref1
Douglas-Home, Robin, ref1
Dowell, Anthony, ref1
Dozier, James Lee, ref1
Drabble, Margaret, ref1
Dreiser, Theodore, ref1
Drew, Elizabeth, ref1
Dreyfus, Alfred, ref1
Drieu La Rochelle, Pierre, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Drummond, John, ref1, ref2
Dryden, John, ref1
Duchovny, David, ref1
Dufay, François, ref1
Du Genettes, Mme. Roger, ref1
Duncan, Isadora, ref1
Duparc, Henri, ref1, ref2
du Pré, Jacqueline, ref1
Durkheim, Émile, ref1
Dylan, Bob, ref1
Dymant, Dora, ref1
Eastwood, Clint, ref1, ref2
Eban, Abba, ref1
Eckstein, ref1
Edinburgh, Duke of, ref1
Edwards, Blake, ref1
Edward VIII, King of England, ref1
Eichmann, Karl Adolph, ref1
Einstein, Albert, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Einstein, Alfred, ref1, ref2
Eisenhower, Dwight D., ref1
Elgar, Edward William, ref1
Eliot, T. S., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, ref1, ref2, ref3
Ellington, Edward Kennedy “Duke,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Empson, William, ref1
Enright, D. J., ref1
Erasmus, ref1, ref2
Eratosthenes, ref1
Eszterhas, Joe, ref1
Faber-Castell, Gräfin, ref1
Fair, A. A., ref1
Fallaci, Oriana, ref1
Fangio, Juan Manuel, ref1, ref2
Farrell, Suzanne, ref1
Faulkner, William, ref1
Faure, Elie, ref1
Fauré, Gabriel-Urbain, ref1, ref2
Faye, Jean Pierre, ref1
Febres, Laura, ref1
Fedak-Molnár, Sari, ref1
Fellini, Federico, ref1, ref2, ref3
Felstiner, John, ref1
Ferguson, Niall, ref1
Fermi, Enrico, ref1, ref2
Ferzetti, Gabriele, ref1
Fest, Joachim, ref1, ref2, ref3
Feuchtwanger, Lion, ref1
Feynman, Richard, ref1
Fields, W. C., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Figes, Orlando, ref1
Fink, Carole
, ref1
Finkielkraut, Alain, ref1, ref2
Finney, Albert, ref1
Firbank, Ronald, ref1, ref2
Fitzgerald, Ella, ref1
Fitzgerald, Frances, ref1, ref2, ref3
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Fizdale, Robert, ref1
Flanagan, Richard, ref1
Flanner, Janet, ref1
Flaubert, Gustave, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Flecker, James Elroy, ref1
Fleming, Ian, ref1
Flockhart, Calista, ref1
Flynn, Errol, ref1
Fonda, Jane, ref1
Fontane, Theodore, ref1
Foot, Michael, ref1
Foote, Shelby, ref1
Ford, Ford Madox, ref1, ref2, ref3
Forester, C. S., ref1
Forman, Milos, ref1
Forster, E. M., ref1, ref2
Forsyth, Frederick, ref1
Foster, Jodie, ref1
Foucault, Michel Paul, ref1, ref2
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré, ref1
Franco, Francisco, ref1
Frank, Anne, ref1, ref2
Frayn, Michael, ref1, ref2
Frederick II, King of Prussia, ref1, ref2
Freed, Arthur, ref1
Freeman, Morgan, ref1
Freisler, Roland, ref1
Freud, Adolfine, ref1
Freud, Marie, ref1
Freud, Pauline, ref1
Freud, Rosa, ref1
Freud, Sigmund, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13
Friedan, Betty, ref1
Friedell, Egon, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
Friedländer, Max, ref1
Frost, Robert, ref1
Fry, Christopher, ref1
Fuentes, Carlos, ref1, ref2, ref3
Fujimori, Alberto, ref1
Fukuyama, Francis, ref1
Furet, François, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Furtwängler, Wilhelm, ref1
Gabor, Zsa Zsa, ref1
Galassi, Jonathan, ref1
Galland, Adolf, ref1
Gandhi, Mahatma, ref1, ref2
Garbo, Greta, ref1, ref2
García Márquez, Gabriel, ref1, ref2
Garcin, Jérôme, ref1
Gardel, Carlos, ref1
Gardner, Erle Stanley, ref1, ref2
Garfield, John, ref1
Garton-Ash, Timothy, ref1
Gauguin, Paul, ref1
Gavazzeni, Gianandrea, ref1
Gaye, Marvin, ref1
Genda, Minoru, ref1
Gentile, Giovanni, ref1, ref2
Gentz, Friedrich von, ref1
George, Stefan, ref1, ref2
George III, King of England, ref1, ref2
George IV, King of England, ref1
Gersdorff, Rudolf Freiherr von, ref1
Geyl, Pieter, ref1
Ghose, Zulfikar, ref1
Gibbon, Edward, ref1, ref2
Gide, André, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Gieseking, Walter, ref1
Gillespie, Dizzy, ref1
Gilliam, Terry, ref1
Gillray, James, ref1
Ginzburg, Evgenia, ref1, ref2