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Feb 24, 2024 · Now, Twelve Books has published A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration, a welcome gathering of 23 mostly uncollected pieces he wrote for the London Review of Books (the volume...
- And Yet…: Essays
- Arguably
- Blood, Class and Empire
- For The Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports
- God Is Not Great
- Hitch-22
- Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays
- The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
- Mortality
- No One Left to Lie to
Christopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the New Statesman, Atlantic Monthly, London Review of Books, TLS and Vanity Fair. Any publication of a volume of Hitchens’ essays was...
Arguably collects Hitchens’ writing on politics, literature and religion when he was at the zenith of his career; itis the indispensable companion to the finest English essayist since Orwell. Amazon Waterstones Bookshop.org
Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have been predicting the eclipse of America’s “special relationship” with Britain. But as events have shown, especially in the wake of 9/11, the political and cultural ties between America and Britain have grown stronger. Blood, Class and Empireexamines the dynamics of this relationship, its many cult...
The global turmoil of the late 1980s and early 1990s severely tested every analyst and commentator. Few wrote with such insight as Christopher Hitchens about the large events – or with such discernment and wit about the small tell-tale signs of a disordered culture. First published in 1993, the writings in For the Sake of Argumentrange from the pol...
god Is Not Great is the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens demonstrates the ways in which religion is man-made, dangerously sexually repressive and distorts the very origins of the cosmos. Above all, Hitchens argues that the concept of an omniscient God has profoundly dam...
In this long-awaited and candid memoir, Hitchens re-traces the footsteps of his life, from his childhood in Portsmouth, with his adoring, tragic mother and reserved Naval officer father; to his life in Washington DC, the base from which from he would launch fierce attacks on tyranny of all kinds. Along the way, he recalls the girls, boys and booze;...
Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essaysshowcases the Hitchens’ rejection of consensus and cliché, whether he’s reporting from abroad in Indonesia, Kurdistan, Iraq, North Korea, or Cuba, or when his pen is targeted mercilessly at the likes of William Clinton, Mother Theresa (“a fanatic, a fundamentalist and a fraud”), the Dalai Lama, Noam Chomsky...
In this frank and damning exposé of the Teresa cult, Hitchens details the nature and limits of one woman’s mission to help the world’s poor. He probes the source of the heroic status bestowed upon an Albanian nun whose only declared wish was to serve God. He asks whether Mother Teresa’s good works answered any higher purpose than the need of the wo...
During the US book tour for his memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens collapsed in his New York hotel room to excoriating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of deeply moving Vanity Fairpieces, he was being deported ‘from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady....
In No One Left to Lie To, Christopher Hitchens portrays President Bill Clinton as one of the most ideologically skewed and morally negligent politicians of recent times. In a blistering polemic which shows that Clinton was at once philanderer and philistine, crooked and corrupt, Hitchens challenges perceptions – of liberals and conservatives alike ...
May 6, 2021 · Book to Movie (or TV Show) releases for 2021 that will be forging ahead are still being sorted, but here’s what’s on the docket so far. The Books to Movies & TV listed here are all ones with some assurance that they’ll actually come out in 2021.
Apr 29, 2021 · Here are the books being made into movies and TV shows in 2021 that we're most excited for, including The Nightingale and another Liane Moriarty adaptation.
- Elena Nicolaou
For your benefit, I’ve split my list of books to movies of 2021 into three sections. First, I’ve got all the books turning into movies in 2021 with an actual release date. After that, I’ve got my most likely 2021 film adaptation candidates, and then a list of projects under development.
Jul 17, 2021 · The Man and His Bookshelf: Christopher Hitchens. Jul 17, 2021 by AuraofAbstraction A Palette of Words. A non-exhaustive list inspired by author, writer and public intellectual Christopher Hitchens’s book recommendations. Balliol College Library, University of Oxford.
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Nov 22, 2021 · A Hitch in Time, a new collection of Hitchens’s previously unanthologised pieces for the LRB, will be published by Atlantic Books on Thursday ( you can order it from the London Review Bookshop now ).
