Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens, a British-American thinker and writer known for his sharp wit, was a fearless critic of religion and a staunch advocate for secularism and free expression, making significant contributions to public discourse as an author, speaker, and journalist.
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What Is History?
Brilliant. - Christopher Hitchens
Edward Hallet Carr
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In Between the Sheets
By then, 'everyone' had been mesmerized by [this book]. - Christopher Hitchens
Ian McEwan
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The Wind Blows Away Our Words
Somewhat too romantic an account of the rebels fighting the Red Army in Afghanistan. - Christopher Hitchens
Doris Lessing
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Wonderful book. - Christopher Hitchens
Rebecca West
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Selling Hitler
Brilliant. - Christopher Hitchens
Robert Harris
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The Day Stalin Died
[Deserves] reprinting in any anthology of the prose of the 20th century. - Christopher Hitchens
Doris Lessing
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Imperialism at Bay
As its title implies, [this book] is more prepared to call things by their unambiguous names. - Christopher Hitchens
William Roger Louis
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Humboldt's Gift
I was able to return [Martin Amis] the favor in a way which was to help change his life in turn, by pressing on him a copy [of this book]. - Christopher Hitchens
Saul Bellow
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At Canaan's Edge
A noble edifice of work about the United States in the era of Martin Luther King. - Christopher Hitchens
Taylor Branch
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Birth of Our Power
Excellent. - Christopher Hitchens
Victor Serge
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The Monument
Possibly the most penetrating of his many books about Saddam and Saddamism. - Christopher Hitchens
Kanan Makiya
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Main Currents of Marxism
Astonishing trilogy. - Christopher Hitchens
Leszek Kolakowski
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
[The author's] electrifying first book. - Christopher Hitchens
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Terminal Moraine
[The author's] first collection of published poems. - Christopher Hitchens
James Fenton
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The Raj Quartet
Had spoken to my depths because it understood that the treason at midnight in 1947, and the monstrous birth of a spoiled theocracy in Pakistan, was a tragedy for the English too. - Christopher Hitchens
Paul Scott
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Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number
The book above all that clothed in living, hurting flesh the necessarily abstract idea of the desaparecido. - Christopher Hitchens
Jacobo Timerman
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Tom Paine
Exceptional. - Christopher Hitchens
John Keane
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Diaries
Can greatly enrich our understanding of how [the author] transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics. - Christopher Hitchens
George Orwell
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The Threatening Storm
One of the best pieces of closely marshaled evidence and reasoning ever to emerge from the wonk-world. - Christopher Hitchens
Kenneth M. Pollack
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Daniel Deronda
Can and should be defended from the faint praise and outright sneering which have been directed at it. - Christopher Hitchens
George Eliot
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In Search of Lost Time
[Appears] not to be written by [a human being]. - Christopher Hitchens
Marcel Proust
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Yellow Dog
You might think that the contempt shown by the reporters for both their subjects and their readers is overdone, but you would be wrong. - Christopher Hitchens
Martin Amis
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The Cruiser
[In this book], my father appears under the name (no first or 'Christian' name) of Lieutenant Hale. - Christopher Hitchens
Warren Tute
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The Mask of Anarchy
One of the finest hymns of hate to authority to have come down to us. - Christopher Hitchens
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
A study of the relations between literature, sexuality, and power under Muslim theocracy. - Christopher Hitchens
Azar Nafisi
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A Long Long Way
Brilliantly done. - Christopher Hitchens
Sebastian Barry
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Lucky Jim
[The author managed] to synthesize the comic achievements of Evelyn Waugh and P. G. Wodehouse. - Christopher Hitchens
Kingsley Amis
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The Captive Mind
I was very struck by the courtesy and grace of this famous polemic and by the way that [the author] combined firmness on his own part with an understanding of the position of others. - Christopher Hitchens
Czeslaw Milosz
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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
[The author's] best-ever essay. - Christopher Hitchens
Karl Marx
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Money
The Great English Novel of the 1980s. - Christopher Hitchens
Martin Amis
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Influenced me very greatly. - Christopher Hitchens
Ernest Hemingway
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This Was the Old Chief's Country
[Combines] the sad indistinctness of a melancholy memoir with the very exact realization that a huge injustice had been done to the 'native' inhabitants of the land. - Christopher Hitchens
Doris Lessing
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Children in Exile
An essential complement to their predecessors. - Christopher Hitchens
James Fenton
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Darkness at Noon
I was re-reading [this book] for what felt like (and quite possibly was) the third time in a month. - Christopher Hitchens
Arthur Koestler
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The Prophet Armed
[Part of a] magnificent trilogy. - Christopher Hitchens
Isaac Deutscher
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The Book of Evidence
[A] fine novel. - Christopher Hitchens
John Banville
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Alexander
Very absorbing. - Christopher Hitchens
Guy Maclean Rogers
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Hons and Rebels
These pages describe the steady, determined evolution of une femme serieuse. - Christopher Hitchens
Jessica Mitford
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Borges
[This] biography reaches the heart of the labyrinth—the intense and wondrous life of Jorge Luis Borges. - Christopher Hitchens
Edwin Williamson
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Parting the Waters
A noble edifice of work about the United States in the era of Martin Luther King. - Christopher Hitchens
Taylor Branch
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Jefferson and His Time
It is an honor, even when it is not a pleasure, to register disagreement with [this book]. - Christopher Hitchens
Dumas Malone
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
Plainly intended to suggest that the gamekeeper had sodomized his boss’s wife. - Christopher Hitchens
D.H. Lawrence
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Portrait in Sepia
The 'subject' is assuredly family life, which is also the tempestuous subtext of much of [the author]'s nonfiction. - Christopher Hitchens
Isabel Allende
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C.L.R. James
Admirable. - Christopher Hitchens
Paul Buhle
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Bosnia
One of the best books I've ever read. I have no choice but to say so. - Christopher Hitchens
Noel Malcolm
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Ecology of Fear
[A] depiction of a coming environmental and societal apocalypse. - Christopher Hitchens
Mike Davis
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The Caged Virgin
I would urge you all to go out and buy [this book]. - Christopher Hitchens
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I Will Bear Witness, Volume 2
Don't start [this book] late at night, you will not get to bed. - Christopher Hitchens
Victor Klemperer
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Sour Sweet
Won the Hawthornden Prize. - Christopher Hitchens
Timothy Mo
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Maps for Lost Lovers
Christopher Hitchens said he was reading this book in a C-SPAN interview in 2007.
Nadeem Aslam
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Writers and Politics
Influenced me enormously when I first found it in a public library in Devonshire in 1967. - Christopher Hitchens
Conor Cruise O'Brien
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Persuasion
Captain Frederick Wentworth in [this book], is partly of interest to the female sex because of the 'prize' loot he has extracted from his encounters with Bonaparte's navy. - Christopher Hitchens
Jane Austen
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The Strange Death of Liberal England
[One of] the two greatest freehand exercises in English periodization. - Christopher Hitchens
George Dangerfield
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The Complete Poems
Christopher Hitchens said this author is one of his favorite poets.
Philip Larkin
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The Lesser Evil
There is a horrid fascination in reading this day-by-day chronicle as it unfolds. - Christopher Hitchens
Victor Klemperer
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Greenmantle
Christopher Hitchens mentioned this as one of his favorite books in a C-SPAN interview in 2007.
John Buchan
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The Redundancy of Courage
If my mighty, critical pen could flash from its scabbard and secure a vast public for any unjustly neglected author, it would flash for [this author]. - Christopher Hitchens
Timothy Mo
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The Siege
A great book. - Christopher Hitchens
Conor Cruise O'Brien
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Shame
[Anatomizes] the heap of madnesses and contradictions that went to make up the nightmarish state of Pakistan. - Christopher Hitchens
Salman Rushdie
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A Clergyman's Daughter
In these pages, I found some specimens of exactly the lower-middle-class family that was familiar to me from life. - Christopher Hitchens
George Orwell
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The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
Christopher Hitchens said this author is one of his favorite poets.
W. B. Yeats
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Ulysses
[Appears] not to be written by [a human being]. - Christopher Hitchens
James Joyce
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Anarchist Portraits
Charming and melancholy album of silhouettes. - Christopher Hitchens
Paul Avrich
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The Prophet Unarmed
[Part of a] magnificent trilogy. - Christopher Hitchens
Isaac Deutscher
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
Shortly after I arrived in New York, [this author] claimed to have diagnosed the same syndrome in [this book]. - Christopher Hitchens
Tom Wolfe
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Peace And Its Discontents
At [the author's] request I even wrote an uninspired introduction to [this book], but my heart was not quite in it. - Christopher Hitchens
Edward W. Said
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Animal Liberation
The parts of [this famous book] that I find most impressive are the deadpan reprints of animal-experiment 'reports.' - Christopher Hitchens
Peter Singer
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The God of Small Things
Exquisite. - Christopher Hitchens
Arundhati Roy
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Hitler
Since [Hitler's] suicide, no one has fully explained how a talentless crank was able to turn Europe into a charnel house. [This book] supplies a piece of the puzzle. - Christopher Hitchens
Ian Kershaw
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The Wolf by the Ears
For me the most various and illuminating account of the slavery question. - Christopher Hitchens
John Chester Miller
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Bitter Lemons
[The author's] beautiful but patronizing memoir. - Christopher Hitchens
Lawrence Durrell
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By Any Means Necessary
Very interesting. - Christopher Hitchens
Spike Lee
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War And Peace
At the age of twelve I had summoned the nerve to borrow from the headmaster, and to read [this book]. - Christopher Hitchens
Leo Tolstoy
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Serious Concerns
Christopher Hitchens said this author is one of his favorite poets.
Wendy Cope
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Covenant with Death
An anti-war British novel of the trenches. - Christopher Hitchens
John Harris
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The Grapes of Wrath
[The author's] 1939 classic. - Christopher Hitchens
John Steinbeck
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The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
Was the first and in many ways the most penetrating critique. - Christopher Hitchens
Bertrand Russell
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The Two Faces of Islam
Argues that in order to appreciate the pluralist, tolerant side of Islam, we must confront its ugly, extremist side. - Christopher Hitchens
Stephen Schwartz
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Power
[The author was] more celebrated still for [this book]. - Christopher Hitchens
Steven Lukes
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In Flanders Fields
A revisionist history of the First World War. - Christopher Hitchens
Leon Wolff
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I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1
Don't start [this book] late at night, you will not get to bed. - Christopher Hitchens
Victor Klemperer
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The Case of Comrade Tulayev
Many good judges regard as the earliest and best fictional representation of the show trials. - Christopher Hitchens
Victor Serge
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Pillar of Fire
A noble edifice of work about the United States in the era of Martin Luther King. - Christopher Hitchens
Taylor Branch
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The Mackerel Plaza
Could make you laugh out loud. - Christopher Hitchens
Peter De Vries
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The Donkeys
A rugged study of British Great War generalship. - Christopher Hitchens
Alan Clark
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A Dance to the Music of Time
When you read [this book], you will straightaway notice that the veterans of the first world war are the instructors of the novices of the second world war. - Christopher Hitchens
Anthony Powell
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The Importance of Being Earnest
One of the few faultless three-act plays ever written. - Christopher Hitchens
Oscar Wilde
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics
Endlessly consultable. - Christopher Hitchens
Richard Hofstadter
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Brideshead Revisited
Discourses on aspects of the Bacchic and the Dionysian. - Christopher Hitchens
Evelyn Waugh
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Doctor Zhivago
[The author] was perhaps not such a fool when he wrote in [this book] that all conceptions are immaculate. - Christopher Hitchens
Boris Pasternak
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The World Is What It Is
Astonishing (and astonishingly authorized) biography. - Christopher Hitchens
Patrick French
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The Great Melody
Tremendous biography. - Christopher Hitchens
Conor Cruise O'Brien
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The Clinton Tapes
[The author] would tape his own memories of [his talks with Bill Clinton] on the drive back home. [This book] is the consequence. - Christopher Hitchens
Taylor Branch
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Girl, 20
[The author]'s neglected masterpiece novel. - Christopher Hitchens
Kingsley Amis
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Infidel
Describes the escape of a young Somali woman from sexual chattelhood to a new life in Holland. - Christopher Hitchens
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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My Name Is Red
[With this book, the author] became a kind of register of this position, dwelling on the interpenetration of Islamic and Western styles. - Christopher Hitchens
Orhan Pamuk
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Epic. - Christopher Hitchens
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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How Democracies Perish
Soothingly pessimistic. - Christopher Hitchens
Jean-Francois Revel
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Middlemarch
[Appears] not to be written by [a human being]. - Christopher Hitchens
George Eliot
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All Quiet on the Western Front
I became consumed with the subject [of World War I] and got hold of [this book]. - Christopher Hitchens
Erich Maria Remarque
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