Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of Liberal Studies at the New School.
From the Review
September 26, 2002: Orwell's List
May 31, 2001: Bad Guy Number One
Wainewright the Poisoner: The Confessions of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright Andrew Motion
September 21, 2000: Lord Trouble
Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas by Douglas Murray
March 9, 2000: O'Brian's Great Voyage
Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed by Dean King
December 2, 1999: The Real Thing
Headlong by Michael Frayn
November 4, 1999: The Case of Arthur Conan Doyle
Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle by Daniel Stashower
Holy Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes by Stephen Kendrick
April 22, 1999: The Cosmopolitan Man
The Essential Gore Vidal edited by Fred Kaplan
The Smithsonian Institution: A Novel by Gore Vidal
December 17, 1998: Last Summer on the Vineyard
The Gun Runner's Daughter by Neil Gordon
No Safe Place by Richard North Patterson
Mackerel By Moonlight by William F. Weld
May 28, 1998: Powell's Way
A Dance to the Music of Time collected in four "movements,", by Anthony Powell. A Question of Upbringing (1951). A Buyer's Market (1952). The Acceptance World (1955). At Lady Molly's (1957). Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (1960). The Kindly Ones (1962). The Valley of Bones (1964). The Soldier's Art (1966). The Military Philosophers (1968). Books Do Furnish a Room (1971). Temporary Kings (1973). Hearing Secret Harmonies (1975)
A Dance to the Music of Time a seven-hour miniseries adapted by Hugh Whitemore. broadcast in the UK on Channel Four
Journals: 1982-1986 by Anthony Powell
Journals: 1987-1989 by Anthony Powell
Journals: 1989-1992 by Anthony Powell
Miscellaneous Verdicts: Writings on Writers 1946-1989 by Anthony Powell
July 17, 1997: Goodbye to All That
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America by Ernesto Che Guevara, translated by Ann Wright
May 15, 1997: The Life of Literature (letter)
March 6, 1997: Taking Off? (letter)
February 20, 1997: The Long Littleness of Life
Christopher Isherwood: Diaries, Volume One: 1939-1960 edited and introduced by Katherine Bucknell
December 19, 1996: Mother Teresa (letter)
November 14, 1996: Something for the Boys
Executive Orders by Tom. Clancy
Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit by Tom Clancy
February 29, 1996: Pulp Politics
Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics by Anonymous
The People's Choice: A Cautionary Tale by Jeff Greenfield
The Last Debate by Jim Lehrer
July 13, 1995: Ode to the West Wing
Shelley's Heart by Charles McCarry
January 20, 1983: Experimental Station
The Cyprus Triangle by R.R. Denktash
From New York Review Books
 | Hons and Rebels In Hons and Rebels Jessica Mitford tells about her upbringing, which, she drily remarks, "even for England, in those far-off days of the middle twenties...was not exactly conventional...." |
 | A Handbook on Hanging With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of the bloodlust of mobs and the shabby excuses of the great. |
Books by Christopher Hitchens
Why Orwell Matters (2002)
No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton (1999)
The Elgin Marbles: Should They Be Returned to Greece? (1997)
Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger (1997)
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (1995)
For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports (1993)
Blood, Class, and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies (1990)
The Monarchy (1990)
Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles (1988)
Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports (1988)
The Elgin Marbles: Should They Be Returned to Greece? (1987)
Cyprus (1984)
Inequalities in Zimbabwe (1981)