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From atheist YouTuber to praying for divine revelation, what has happened to Alex O’Connor?
The novelist Thomas Mallon's journals reveal a side of the '80s that the standard gay histories—and standard conservative ...
William F Buckley Jr was, above all else, a debater. He’s perhaps best known today for jousting with the liberal writer Gore ...
In an afterword, Hitchens' widow, Carol Blue, describes re-reading him, and "when I do, I hear him, and he has the last word. Time after time, Christopher has the last word." ...
Impossible as it is to believe, Christopher Hitchens, the enfant terrible of Anglo-American politics and letters, would have turned 75 today, almost 13 years since his premature death from ...
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This bracing anthology of Christopher Hitchens’s work for The London Review of Books is just the ticket. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we ...
See his life in photos. Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum Christopher Hitchens, one of the world’s foremost thinkers and literary critics, was born in Portsmouth in the United Kingdom in 1949.
Future generations are very unlikely to credit Christopher Hitchens with saving the Left. Nor is he likely to be remembered as a great essayist like his long-time hero George Orwell, or even H.L ...
Christopher Hitchens—the legendary journalist, author, and contrarian who made his name as a leftist firebrand, then became almost as well-known for his turn as a post-9/11 hawk—died 10 years ...