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Christopher Hitchens

May 2023

  • Martha Gill

    Amis, Hitchens and Larkin: bad behaviour and a messy personal life were once a gift for authors. Not any more

    Martha Gill
  • Martin Amis.

    ‘You read to have a good time. Why else would people go on doing it?’: Martin Amis – a life in quotes

June 2022

  • Princess Diana attends a White House event September 24, 1996 in Washington, DC.<br>C6W4RT Princess Diana attends a White House event September 24, 1996 in Washington, DC. Film still - The Princess

    The Princess review – Diana’s story remains captivating – and agonising

    We know what happens but, even so, Ed Perkins’s skilfully edited documentary on the dazzling outsider royal is utterly and unerringly compelling

May 2021

  • ‘Overly drawn to low-hanging fruit’: Salman Rushdie.

    Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie review - self-absorption writ large

    Rushdie is overly drawn to low-hanging fruit in this smug collection of criticism, speeches and essays

June 2020

  • Susie Steiner

    It has been easier to cope with my cancer during lockdown - and books have been a lifeline

    While being treated for a brain tumour, Susie Steiner has read memoirs and medical histories - but it was a novel that best captured the gruelling reality of illness

April 2020

  • Martin Amis in 1987.

    A book that changed me
    I can never look at an alsatian without thinking of Martin Amis's London Fields

    Rosa Lyster
    When my dad introduced me to the novel, he didn’t say what it was about, says the writer Rosa Lyster

February 2020

  • Martin Amis, renowned British author, appears at a photocall prior to an event at Edinburgh International Book Festival, on August 24, 2014 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

    Martin Amis to publish novel inspired by death of Christopher Hitchens

    An autobiographical novel, Inside Story, will chronicle the writer’s romantic affairs, the death of Hitchens – his closest friend – and the 9/11 attacks

November 2019

  • Alan Bennett

    London Review of Books: An Incomplete History review – 40 years of the LRB

    Rants, spats and intellectual seriousness from London’s literary elite

April 2019

  • Promotional image of Pearl Mackie for eco-drama Forest 404

    The week in radio: Forest 404; The Reunion; Archive on 4 – review

    Radio 4’s new sci-fi series was darkly funny but also infuriating. Plus, powerful real-life drama in The Reunion; and remembering Christopher Hitchens

February 2019

  • Sam Harris

    Sam Harris, the new atheist with a spiritual side

    The neuroscientist – and longtime exponent of meditation – talks about his new app and why he is definitely not an Islamophobe

January 2019

  • Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris.

    Book of the day
    The Four Horsemen review - whatever happened to ‘New Atheism’?

    Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett, Harris ... were the apostles of atheism as fearless as they thought?

November 2018

  • Stephen Fry

    Stephen Fry pronounces the death of classical liberalism: ‘We are irrelevant and outdated bystanders’

    He wasn’t the only one, as the Festival of Dangerous Ideas contemplated the rapid changes in contemporary politics

September 2017

  • Martin Amis

    Book of the week
    The Rub of Time by Martin Amis – brilliant, except when it’s not

  • Martin Amis

    Martin Amis: ‘I miss the English’

May 2017

  • Salman Rushdie

    Thirty years of Hay: Christopher Hitchens, Margaret Atwood, Hilary Mantel – in conversation

    Christopher Hitchens on God, Margaret Atwood on The Handmaid’s Tale, Hilary Mantel on Wolf Hall … highlights from Hay’s most memorable interviews

February 2017

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Notebook
    I put Milo Yiannopoulos through the Christopher Hitchens test. He failed

    Peter Bradshaw
    Bill Maher likened the far-right agitator to one of the finest writers of recent times. He isn’t even close – Yiannopoulos is a boring narcissist

December 2016

  • Martin Amis.

    Martin Amis working on novel about Christopher Hitchens, Saul Bellow and Philip Larkin

    Theme of the autobiographical fiction about his three friends, who all died after he had begun writing it, will be death

November 2016

  • AA Gill

    AA Gill opens restaurant review with cancer disclosure

    Sunday Times critic wanted to alert readers to any effect of chemotherapy on his taste buds and says he has no ‘bucket list’

June 2016

  • Nick Cohen

    Deathbed conversion? Never. Christopher Hitchens was defiant to the last

    Nick Cohen
    There was no deathbed conversion to Christianity, despite the claims of a ‘strange, spiteful book’

May 2016

  • ‘To claim Christopher Hitchens posthumously for evangelical Christianity is to defame a man who was a champion of the Enlightenment.’

    Christopher Hitchens and the Christian conversion that wasn’t

    Matthew d'Ancona
    A new book suggesting that the author of God is not Great was halfway to Christianity follows a long tradition of appropriation
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