Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of Liberal Studies at the New School.
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.