Christopher Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a prolific English-American author, political journalist and literary critic. His books, essays, and journalistic career spanned more than four decades. Recognized as a public intellectual, he was a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. Hitchens was a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and a variety of other media outlets.
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Booknotes interview with Hitchens on For the Sake of Argument, October 17, 1993, C-SPAN |
Year | Review article | Work(s) reviewed |
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2009 | "The man in full". The Atlantic. 303 (5): 83–87. June 2009.[1] | Hemingway, Ernest (2009). A moveable feast : the restored edition. Scribner. ISBN 9781416591313. |
2009 | "The zealot : Arthur Koestler's manic intellectual career". The Atlantic. 304 (5): 103–107. December 2009. | Scammell, Michael. Koestler : the literary and political odyssey of a Twentieth-Century sceptic. Random House. |
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