A review by loujoseph
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James

4.0

A mostly fascinating collection of biographies, painting a portrait of intellectual life in the 20th century interupted by WW2 and the Holocaust. Mostly good because of one strange digression about Sophie Scholl, about how Natalie Portman should play her in a movie about her life, James get a little creepy-old-man here and goes on and on about how she brings "gravity" to anything she's in, conveniently forgetting that SHE CAN'T FUCKING ACT. blegh. this also showing James as a bit of a fogey, not really able to understand much from the last 40 years. But his knowledge of everything before is pretty strong.