The Savaging Of Clive James

You don’t have to be familiar with the work of cultural polymath Clive James to appreciate the brutal but restrained vivisection Christopher Tayler performs on the Great Man’s latest memoir (and, by extension, his transformation from “a writer with a powerful sense of the ridiculous slowly turning into someone with only a vestigial one”). It’s almost a master class in the form, and I say this as someone who is a huge fan of James’.