author: christopher hitchens

... Bonfire of the Vanities constantly at hand . It worked once . Why should it not work again ? She wore some sort of go - to - hell white pants that were very floppy in the legs but exceptionally tight in the crotch . Exceptionally ...

... delight in ridiculing what he sees as their illusions and inanities. Rarely does he miss an opportunity to ... crash and burn. And then he wants to rub it in and then rub it in some more. Occasionally, this leads him into excess and ...

... Zeitgeist , this changes not very much the traditional view of the artist ... addendum to the piece he had written about it . He attached the copy of my ... text . Resisting the temptation to tell him that all the tiny numbers were in the ...

This book is a polemical masterpiece by a man who, for forty years, was the Angloshpere's preeminent man of letters. In The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Hitchens' verve, style and firebrand wit are on show at the height of their potency.

... you were invited to the den , Zen , Klan , or coven meeting at which these were defined ? Did you speak ? In turning to the action of contemporary culture on language , and thus on the writer , the first thing to DONALD BARTHELME 15.

The reader will find in these pages outstanding essays on political asassination in America as well as a scathing review of the evisceration of politics by pollsters and spin-doctors.

Essays by Christopher Hitchens Christopher Hitchens. Thus , though it lives on many a veteran's bookshelf as a stirring monument to the grandeur of the American socialist and labor movements , The Jungle may also be read today as a ...

Christopher Hitchens. to police our doctrine. Sacrifices and ceremonies are abhorrent to us, as are relics and the ... bookshelf or the lunch or the gallery will obviously, if they are serious, bring us into contact with belief and ...

Three Classic Books in One Volume Christopher Hitchens. with a thing, they first put it into a tank and got out of it ... bookshelf as a stirring monument to the grandeur of the American socialist and labor movements, The Jungle may also ...

... unpleasant fact. So, for that matter, may a priest with 'doubts'. The reaction of such people to unpleasant facts is rarely self-critical; they do not have the 'power of facing'. Their confrontation with the fact takes the form of an ...

... unpleasant fact. So, for the matter of that, may a priest with “doubts.” The reaction of such people to unpleasant facts is rarely self-critical: they do not have a “power of facing.” Their confrontation with the fact takes the form of ...

... Great Gatsby is the American Brideshead Revisited. Or perhaps one should say that Brideshead, produced two decades ... quotes very effectively from that crucial poem in Brideshead; Fitzgerald is known to have drawn his valley of ashes on Long ...

Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice Christopher Hitchens. The irony is that she has never been able to induce any- body to believe her . It is past time that she was duly honoured , and taken at her word . When I asked the electronic ...

Christopher Hitchens. believe it too . And why is that ? Because that's what their holy books tell them . Now , I'm sorry , but enough with saying " in the name of religion . " Do ... What faith can do is not tell you what is right but give ...