Further praise for
CULTURAL COHESION

“Clive James is in the tradition of Hazlitt, Bagehot, and Edmund Wilson, with a gusto to succeed theirs.”

—John Bayley

“[Clive James’s] outstanding talent is as a cicerone, guiding the ignorant traveler with patience, knowledge, and wit round some favorite literary edifice and communicating his own admiration of it to the goggling and fascinated visitor.”

—Times Literary Supplement

“The timelessness, acuity, and humanism of James’ criticism is everywhere evident in this scintillating collection.”

—Donna Seaman, Booklist

Praise for Clive James

“James’s prose is . . . comic, inventive, above all, energetic.”

—New York Times Book Review

“Clive James is a brilliant bunch of guys.”—The New Yorker

“[James] writes like a prophet and he can satirize folly in high places with a touch as elegant as Oscar Wilde.”

—Daily Mail

“In a world where knowledge is becoming more fragmentary and specialized every day, Clive James can write about the high, the middle and low alike with astonishing facility and erudition.”

—Times Literary Supplement