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Contretemps with Christopher: On Hitchens's 'Arguably: Essays'

PopMatters - Jan 6, 2012
Christopher Hitchens was lionized and reviled for his multiform legacy as an essayist, literary critic, editor, and public intellectual. He wrote with record celerity, at once tippling and typing masterful pieces under the aegis of The New Statesman, ...

The Nature of Responsibility

The Houghton Star - Jan 24, 2012
In the January 2012 edition of Vanity Fair, Christopher Hitchens — possibly the greatest intellectual of the last 30 years — addressed the issue of death from the perspective of one currently experiencing it (he was recently diagnosed with esophageal ...

Christopher Hitchens Posthumous Memoir Coming in September

The Atlantic Wire - Jan 17, 2012
Today in publishing and literature: Christopher Hitchens final memoir will be published simultaneously in the UK and US, a modest proposal to help authors make more money, and the "Jefferson Bible" will be back in print next month.

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Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens

by: Christopher Hitchens
"All first-rate criticism first defines what we are confronting," the late, great jazz critic Whitney Balliett once wrote. By that measure, the essays of Christopher Hitchens are in the first tier. For nearly four decades, Hitchens has been telling us, in pitch-perfect prose, what we confront when we grapple with first principles-the principles of reason and tolerance and skepticism that define and inform the foundations of our civilization-principles that, to endure, must be defended anew by every generation.
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Animal Farm and 1984

by: George Orwell

George Orwell's two subversive masterpieces—now together in one edition—are "weapons of self-respect as well as of self-defense," writes Christopher Hitchens in his introduction.

 

Animal Farm
A biting satire of the Russian Revolution, Animal Farm imagines a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. The pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution that leads to the brutal betrayal of the faithful horse Boxer and reestablishes totalitarian rule, adding an unforgettable bloodstained postscript to their founding slogan.
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Blame Hitchens, Dawkins & Harris--Essays of a New Atheist

by: G.M. Jackson
A collection of humorous, witty, pro-atheistic essays that entertain as well as inform. (Approximately 10,000 words.)
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The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism--The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

Over the past few decades, the bestselling author of Hitch-22 has crisscrossed the globe debating religious scholars, Catholic clergy, rabbis, and devout Christians on the existence of God--appearances that have attracted thousands of people on both sides of the issue. He has been invited to talk shows and events to discuss everything from the death of Jerry Falwell to the sainthood of Mother Teresa, from U.S. policy in the Middle East to the dangers of religious fundamentalism and beyond.
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