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Tim Page
Tim Page (born 1954)

music critic, literary critic, biographer, journalist

  • Columbia University, Mannes College The New School for Music

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Dawn Powell
Parallel play
Selected letters of dawn powell
Parallel play
William Kapell
Dawn Powell
Music from the road
What's God Got to Do with It?
Carnegie Hall treasures
Tim Page on music
Selected letters of dawn powell
The Hip pocket guide to Los Angeles
Tim Page on Music
Party punches
The Hip pocket guide to New York City
Music from the Road
Tim Page on Music
Dawn Powell
The Selected Letters of Virgil Thomson
Instants de grâce
Virgil Thomson
Morton Gould
Party Punches
Chris Welch
Chris Welch (born 1941)

journalist, music critic

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Led Zeppelin
The Rolling Stones
Winwood
Peter Grant
David Bowie Stories Behind The Songs 19701980
David Bowie: We Could Be Heroes
Hendrix
Take you higher
Bob Marley
Clapton
Close to the Edge
The Tina Turner Experience
Cream
Hendrix; biography
Iron Maiden
Treasures Of Led Zeppelin
Paul McCartney
Power and Glory
Led Zeppelin
Ginger geezer
Led Zeppelin
Steve Winwood--roll with it
Clapton
The Who
Ginger geezer
Eric Clapton
David Bowie
Pink Floyd
John Bonham
Def Leppard
Marc Bolan
Treasures of The Who
The official Take That annual
Led Zeppelin The Stories Behind Every Led Zeppelin Song
Led Zeppelin: Dazed and Confused
Introduction to Chile
AC/DC, HM photo book
Eric Clapton Treasures
Black Sabbath
Bob Marley
Deep Purple HM photo book
Genesis
Complete Guides to the Music of the Police & Sting (The complete guide to the music of...)
Led Zeppelin
One Hit Wonders
Secret Life of Peter Gabriel
Hendrix: a biography
Gary Moore
The Fire station
AC/DC, HM photo book
David Bowie Changes
Cream
Complete Guide to the Music of Genesis
Complete Guide to the Music of Genesis
Story of Yes
Philippe Le Guillou
Philippe Le Guillou (born 1959)

literary critic

  • Lycée Chateaubriand, University of Rennes 2 – Upper Brittany

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Chateaubriand à Combourg
Stèles à De Gaulle
Jesus (Tras los pasos de . . . Series)
Le songe royal
Fleurs de tempête
Le testament breton
L'intimité de la rivière
Le chemin des livres
Géographies de la mémoire
Novembre
Le roman inépuisable
Paris intérieur
Douze années dans l'enfance du monde
L' inventeur de royaumes
Les proximités éternelles
Le dieu noir
Le donjon de Lonveigh
Livres des guerriers d'or
Les marées du Faou
Julien Gracq
L'escalier des brumes
Sur les traces de... Jésus
Le déjeuner des bords de Loire
Le dernier veilleur de Bretagne
Le Roi dort
Les portes de l'Apocalypse
La consolation
Jésus
Le bateau brume
Déambulations
L' inventaire du vitrail
Le passage de l'Aulne
Richard Texier
Les années insulaires
Les sept noms du peintre
Philippe Le Guillou parle des Éditions Gallimard
Bernard Louédin
Le passeur
La route de la mer
Le dépaysement
À Argol, il n'y a pas de château
Le pont des anges
Figures et rituels initiatiques dans le roman et le récit français entre 1970 et 1980
Le mystère Richelieu
La rumeur du soleil
La main a plume
Après l'équinoxe
Fleurs De Tempete (FOLIO)
Marc Spitz
Marc Spitz (1969-2017)

journalist, biographer, music critic

  • Bennington College

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NOBODY LIKES YOU
Nobody likes you
God and man
Bowie
Jagger
We Got the Neutron Bomb
Nobody likes you
Poseur
Bowie
How soon is never?
Too much, too late
Twee
David Bowie
Green day
Jagger (Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue)
Loud Pictures
Hervé Le Tellier
Hervé Le Tellier (born 1957)

journalist, poet, literary critic, mathematician

  • Centre de formation des journalistes, Paris Diderot University

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All Happy Families
Enough about love
Joconde sur votre indulgence
Esthetique de l'Oulipo
Anomaly
Esthétique de l'Oulipo
Encyclopædia inutilis
Eléctrico W
La disparition de Perek
La France, l'industrie, la crise
La anomalía
Esthétique de l'Oulipo
Anomaly
Bar Sonatlari
L'anomalia
A thousand pearls (for a thousand pennies)
L'Athlète dans les étoiles
L'anomalie
Toutes les familles heureuses
Atlas inutilis
The Anomaly
Le voleur de nostalgie
The sextine chapel
Leurs contes de Perrault
Les amnésiques n'ont rien vécu d'inoubliable, ou, Mille réponses à la question "A quoi tu penses ?"
Thousand Pearls (for a Thousand Pennies)
Asktan Bu Kadar
Sextine Chapel
Des Papous dans la tête - Les Décraqués
Joconde jusqu'à 100
Un sourire indéfinissable
Moi et François Mitterrand
L'herbier des villes
Les amnésiques n'ont rien vécu d'inoubliable, ou, mille réponses à la question "à quoi tu penses?"
Assez parlé d'amour
Quelques mousquetaires et autres nouvelles
Eléctrico W
Sonates de bar
Anomalin
Le vent de la langue
Ian Hamilton
Ian Hamilton (1938-2001)

poet, literary critic

  • University of Oxford

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The Oxford companion to twentieth-century poetry in English
Robert Lowell
In search of J.D. Salinger
Keepers of the flame
A gift imprisoned
Against oblivion
Ian Hamilton in conversation with Dan Jacobson
Writers in Hollywood, 1915-1951
A poetry chronicle
Walking possession
Writers in Hollywood, 1915-1951
The trouble with money and other essays
A poetry chronicle: essays and reviews
The modern poet
The little magazines
The New review anthology
The Faber book of soccer
The visit
Four conversations
Fifty poems
Another round at the pillars
Collected poems
Gazza Italia
Steps
Poems since 1900
The poetry of war, 1939-45
The modern poet
The Faber book of soccer
Pretending not to sleep
The Penguin book of twentieth-century essays
Marcia Davenport
Marcia Davenport (1903-1996)

biographer, music critic, journalist, opinion journalist, musicologist

  • Wellesley College

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Too strong for fantasy
Mozart
Too strong for fantasy
East Side, West Side
Of Lena Geyer
My Brother's Keeper
The valley of decision
Mozart
The valley of decision
East side, West side
The constant image
Garibaldi
Les frères Holt
Too Strong for Fantasy
The constant image
Lena Geyer
Jan
Le fleuve qui tout emporta
The constant image
ʻEmeḳ he-ḥaruts
Of Lena Geyer
Too strong for fantasy
Of Lena Geyer
Marcia Davenport papers
Darkah shel Lenah Gayʼer
Clive James
Clive James (1939-2019)

broadcaster, literary critic, poet, television presenter

  • University of Sydney, University of Cambridge

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Cultural Amnesia
Unreliable memoirs
May Week was in June
Unreliable Memoirs
Always Unreliable
Fame in the 20th century
The dreaming swimmer
Falling towards England
Diana
Meaning of Recognition
North Face of Soho (Unreliable Memoirs)
unreliable memoirs
Fame In the Century
The blaze of obscurity
Unreliable Memoirs
The Silver Castle
As of this writing
Brilliant Creatures
Snakecharmers In Texas
The Remake
Flying Visits
The book of my enemy
From the Land of Shadows
Opal sunset
Point of View
At the Pillars of Hercules
Clive James' Reliable Essays
The man from Japan
Glued to the Box
Iwerddon
Visions before midnight
Brrm! brrm! or, The man from Japan, or, Perfume at Anchorage
The crystal bucket
Collected Poems
Latest readings
Sentenced to Life
Poem of the year
Even as we speak
Flying visits
Britannia Bright's bewilderment in the wilderness of Westminster
The metropolitan critic
Charles Charming's challenges on the pathway to the Throne
Angels over Elsinore
Play all
Glued to the box
Cultural Cohesion
The River in the Sky
Other passports
First reactions
Nefertiti In The Flak Tower
The revolt of the pendulum
A manual of assessment keys for plant diseases
Global status of commercialized biotech/GM crops, 2009
Clive James on television
The Divine Comedy
Fan-mail
THE CRYSTAL BUCKET
Injury time
Global status of commercialized biotech/GM crops, 2006
Fire of Joy
The improved version of Peregrine Prykke's pilgrimage through the London literary world
Brrm Brrm
Somewhere Becoming Rain
Poetry notebook
A Point of View
May Week Was in June
Gate of Lilacs
Preview: Global review of commercialized transgenic crops
Iwerddon
unreliable memoirs
Fire of Joy
River in the Sky
Isaaa Annual Report, 1996
Global status of commercialized biotech/GM crops, 2008
Crystal Bucket
Play All
The Complete Unreliable Memoirs : Volume Two
What future for Scottish Gaelic speaking communities?
Sentenced to life
Cultural Amnesia
Collected Poems
Global review of commercialized transgenic crops: 2001 feature
Iwerddon
Fin de fiesta
Nefertiti in the flak tower
Preview
Divine Comedy
Preview: Global status of commercialized transgenic crops
The Dreaming Swimmer
Global Review of Commercialized Transgenic Crops
Progressing Public-Private Sector Partnerships in International Agricultural Research and Development
Global status of commercialized transgenic crops
Fin de fiesta
Collected Poems (James)
Global Status of Transgenic Crops in 1997
The fate of Felicity Fark in the land of the media
Isaaa Annual Report, 1995: Shared Solutions to Shared Problems
Somewhere Becoming Rain
Even As We Speak
Brrm] Brrm], Or, The Man from Japan, Or, Perfume at Anchorage
Loose Canon : the Extraordinary Songs of Clive James and Pete
Global Review of the Field Testing and Commercialization of Transgenic Plants, 1986-1995
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