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When he's right ...(Shelf Life)(Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays )(Book Review)
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS is the kind of writer who makes you miss your bus stop when you're engrossed in him, who makes you want to grab friends by the arm and read them passages that have made you shiver between the shoulder blades (this last was Vladimir Nabokov's test for good writing). He is such an excellent writer, indeed, that on the notorious occasions on which he is colossally, flagrantly wrong you suspect he must be kidding. (Mustn't he?)
The new anthology Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays (Nation, 475 pp., $16.95) is Hitchens's widest-ranging book since the events of 9/11 catalyzed his transformation from an occasional gadfly against leftist ...
- Hitchens' journey; Formerly a proud Trotskyist, essayist moving...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times March 21, 2003 700+ words
...Collier was admonishing Christopher Hitchens, the British-born essayist who was...other unreconstructed radicals, Mr. Hitchens had been volubly heckling repentant ex...gallery. How things change. Today, Mr. Hitchens and Mr. Blumenthal no longer speak to...
- Hitchens charges White House plot.(Nation)(Impeachment)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Hallow, Ralph Z. February 13, 1999 700+ words
Christopher Hitchens, onetime friend and current accuser...White House is out to get him. Mr. Hitchens said in an interview yesterday that...others, to spread a story that Mr. Hitchens once denied the Holocaust and defended...
- Hitchens' five-star show brings golden memories.(Sport)
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) November 12, 2009 700+ words
...were equalled by one striker, Gerry Hitchens, against the Addicks half-a-century...the Villa history books. Along with Hitchens' five-star show, Bobby Thomson and...other four scorers were overshadowed by Hitchens that day, they will get together on...
- Christopher Hitchens offers advice to young contrarians.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Romano, Carlin January 4, 2002 700+ words
...journalists and politicos, Christopher Hitchens' spacious apartment in the swank Wyoming...as the events of Sept. 11, and, in Hitchens' words in the December Atlantic Monthly...American) Empire." This is Christopher Hitchens' world, and everyone else _ excepting...
- An attack on God both outrageous and popular: Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not...
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Lloyd, Laura August 3, 2007 700+ words
...outselling British journalist Christopher Hitchens' sunflower-yellow screed attacking...Princess Diana actually figures in Hitchens' arguments that God doesn't exist...it for all others.) By late July, Hitchens' book was still in the top 10 for its...
- With God in His Sights; Hitchens takes on Gandhi, Billy Graham--and the Big...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek May 14, 2007 700+ words
...atheism, butto the journalist Christopher Hitchens it's an opportunity to remind his readers...under fatwa of death for apostasy--or Hitchens himself, who was warned of possible...apartment. After a lifetime of iconoclasm, Hitchens finally takes on, in his new book...
- How Hitchens Suckered Himself.(journalist Christopher Hitchens' testimony...
- Magazine article from: The Nation COCKBURN, ALEXANDER March 8, 1999 700+ words
...mid the shifting sands of Christopher Hitchens's accounts of and apologias for his...Tribune, the New York Observer....'" Hitchens then narrates how this allocution on...Start and "suckered" The Nation. But, Hitchens continues, the transcripts of that grand...
- Bad faith effort: Christopher Hitchens phones in a polemic against religion.(on...
- Magazine article from: Washington Monthly Baumann, Paul June 1, 2007 700+ words
...Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens Twelve, 294 pp. It will come as no...Slate or the Atlantic, that Christopher Hitchens is mad as hell and isn't going to take it anymore. For years the indefatigable Hitchens--political columnist, ardent biographer...
Source: HighBeam Research, When he's right ...(Shelf Life)(Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and...