Clive James finally travels to Japan and finds out for himself what it's like to participate in the kind of crazy game show he has observed for so long when he is a contestant on Takeshi's Castle.

Over the course of almost 50 essays, cultural pundit James only occasionally wears out his welcome, and very infrequently misses his mark. Four essays on Philip Larkin cover much the same ground, a ...

Clive James’s 2014 poem is a poignant meditation on his impending death. He has died at 80 in England. Your death, near now, is of an easy sort. So slow a fading out brings no real pain. Breath ...