Christopher Hitchens reading his book Hitch-22 (2010)

Christopher Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a prolific English-American author, political journalist and literary critic. His books, essays, and journalistic career spanned more than four decades. Recognized as a public intellectual, he was a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. Hitchens was a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and a variety of other media outlets.

Books

Sole author

External videos
video icon Washington Journal interview with Hitchens on No One Left To Lie To, April 30, 1999, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Hitchens on The Trial of Henry Kissinger, June 28, 2001, C-SPAN
video icon Washington Journal interview with Hitchens on Letters to a Young Contrarian, November 11, 2001, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Hitchens on Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, June 17, 2005, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Hitchens on Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, May 6, 2006, C-SPAN
video icon Interview with Hitchens on Hitch-22, May 27, 2010, C-SPAN
  • 1984 Cyprus. Quartet. Revised editions as Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger, 1989 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and 1997 (Verso). ISBN 978-0-704-32436-7
  • 1987 Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles. Chatto and Windus (UK)/Hill and Wang (US, 1988) / 1997 UK Verso edition as The Elgin Marbles: Should They Be Returned to Greece? (with essays by Robert Browning and Graham Binns). Reissued and updated 2008 as The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Reunification, Verso. ISBN 978-0-809-04189-3
  • 1990 Blood, Class, and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Reissued 2004, with a new introduction, as Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship, Nation Books, ISBN 1-56025-592-7
  • 1999 No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton. Verso. Reissued as No One Left to Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family in 2000. ISBN 978-1-859-84736-7
  • 2001 The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Verso. ISBN 1-85984-631-9
  • 2001 Letters to a Young Contrarian. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-03033-5
  • 2002 Why Orwell Matters, Basic Books ISBN 0-465-03050-5. (US edition)

Pamphlets

Essays

External videos
video icon Booknotes interview with Hitchens on For the Sake of Argument, October 17, 1993, C-SPAN

Collaborations

  • 1976 Callaghan, The Road to Number Ten (with Peter Kellner). Cassell, ISBN 0-304-29768-2
  • 1988 Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question (contributor; co-editor with Edward Said). Verso, ISBN 0-86091-887-4. Reissued, 2001.
  • 1994 When Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds (with Ed Kashi). Pantheon Books.
  • 1994 International Territory: The United Nations, 1945-1995 (with Adam Bartos). Verso.
  • 2000 Vanity Fair's Hollywood, Graydon Carter and David Friend (editors). Viking Studio.
  • 2019 The Four Horsemen: The Discussion that Sparked an Atheist Revolution, (with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Stephen Fry). Bantam Press.

Co-author or co-editor

Contributor

  • 2005 Religion, Culture, and International Conflict: A Conversation, Michael Cromartie (editor). Rowman & Littlefield.
  • 2005 A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq, Thomas Cushman (editor). University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-24555-5
  • 2011 The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism, Windsor Mann (editor). Da Capo Press.

Book introductions, forewords and prefaces

Book reviews

Year Review article Work(s) reviewed
2009 "The man in full". The Atlantic. 303 (5): 83–87. June 2009.[1] Hemingway, Ernest (2009). A moveable feast : the restored edition. Scribner. ISBN 9781416591313.
2009 "The zealot : Arthur Koestler's manic intellectual career". The Atlantic. 304 (5): 103–107. December 2009. Scammell, Michael. Koestler : the literary and political odyssey of a Twentieth-Century sceptic. Random House.

Dedicatee

Books dedicated to Hitchens:

References

  1. Online version is titled "Hemingway's libidinous feast".
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