Cultural Cohesion

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by Clive James


  —Times Literary Supplement

  Copyright

  Copyright © 2013, 2003 by Clive James

  All rights reserved

  Printed in the United States of America

  First published as a Norton paperback 2013

  Previously published under the title As of This Writing: The Essential Essays, 1968–2002.

  “The Dreaming Swimmer,” “Snakecharmers in Texas,” “Primo Levi’s Last Will and Testament,” “Mark Twain, Journalist,” “Casanova Comes Home Again,” Hitler’s Unwitting Exculpator,” “Bertrand Russell Struggles After Heaven,” “Pier Paolo Pain in the Neck,” “Mondo Fellini,” and “Who Was that Masked Man” were originally published in The New Yorker.

  “Go Back to the Cold!” reprinted with permission from the New York Review of Books. Copyright © 1977 NYREV, Inc.

  “Castalia” reprinted with permission from the New York Review of Books. Copyright © 1980 NYREV, Inc.

  “Waugh’s Last Stand” reprinted with permission from the New York Review of Books. Copyright © 1980 NYREV, Inc.

  “Sherlockology” reprinted with permission from the New York Review of Books. Copyright © 1975 NYREV, Inc.

  Manufacturing by the Haddon Craftsmen, Inc.

  Book design by Jam Design

  Production manager: Julia Druskin

  The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

  James, Clive, 1939–

  As of this writing: the essential essays, 1968–2002 / by Clive James

  p.m.

  Includes index

  ISBN 0-393-05180-3

  ISBN 978-0-393-34711-1 (e-book)

  I. Title.

  PR9619.3.J27A6 2003

  8298’.914—dc21

  2003041257

  ISBN 978-0-393-34636-7 pbk.

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  ALSO BY CLIVE JAMES

  Autobiography

  The Blaze of Obscurity

  North Face of Soho

  May Week Was in June

  Falling Towards England

  Unreliable Memoirs

  Fiction

  The Silver Castle

  The Man from Japan

  The Remake

  Brilliant Creatures

  Verse

  Nefertiti in the Flak Tower

  Opal Sunset: Selected Poems, 1958–2008

  Angels over Elsinore

  The Book of My Enemy: Collected Verse, 1958–2003

  Criticism

  A Point of View

  The Revolt of the Pendulum

  Cultural Amnesia

  The Meaning of Recognition

  Even as We Speak

  Reliable Essays: The Best of Clive James

  The Dreaming Swimmer

  On Television

  Snakecharmers in Texas

  Glued to the Box

  From the Land of Shadows

  The Crystal Bucket

  First Reactions

  At the Pillars of Hercules

  Visions Before Midnight

  The Metropolitan Critic (new edition, 1994)

  Travel

  Flying Visits

 

 

 


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