A crash course in civilization with the versatile and witty Clive James. Critic, novelist, essayist, memoirist, poet, TV host... as The New Yorker put it, "Clive James is a brilliant bunch of guys." Clive James died in November 2019. He spoke to Eleanor Wachtel in 2008 about his book Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time, an illuminating compendium of 20th century thinkers — with an urgent plea for humanism in the face of tyranny.