Christopher Hitchens

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

In the LRB Archive:

• 11 September 1973: Crimes against Allende · 11 July 2002

  • Pinochet in Piccadilly: Britain and Chile’s Hidden History by Andy Beckett

• Done Deal: Nixon in China · 5 April 2001

  • A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China by Patrick Tyler

• Performing Seals: The PR Crowd · 10 August 2000

  • Partisans: Marriage, Politics and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals by David Laskin

• The Egg-Head’s Egger-On: Saul Bellow keeps his word (sort of) · 27 April 2000

  • Ravelstein by Saul Bellow

• Diary writes about the candidates for the US the presidency (2000) · 6 January 2000

• What a Lot of Parties on Diana Mosley · 30 September 1999

  • Diana Mosley: A Biography by Jan Dalley

• Running on Empty: The Wrong Stuff · 7 January 1999

  • A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe

• Moderation or Death on Isaiah Berlin · 26 November 1998

  • Isaiah Berlin: A Life by Michael Ignatieff
  • The Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin by György Dalos

• Diary slums it with the Almanach de Gotha · 2 July 1998

• Acts of Violence in Grosvenor Square: Memoirs of a Revolutionary · 4 June 1998

  • 1968: Marching in the Streets by Tariq Ali and Susan Watkins
  • The Beginning of the End: France, May 1968 by Angelo Quattrocchi and Tom Nairn
  • The Love Germ by Jill Neville

• Brief Shining Moments on Donkey Business in the White House · 19 February 1998

  • Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 by Taylor Branch
  • ‘One Hell of a Gamble’: Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-64 by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali
  • The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour Hersh
  • Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson , Bobby Kennedy and the Feud that Defined a Decade by Jeff Shesol
  • The Year the Dream Died by Jules Witcover
  • Without Honor: The Impeachment of President Nixon and the Crimes of Camelot by Jerry Zeifman
  • The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis edited by Ernest May and Philip Zelikow
  • Lyndon B. Johnson’s Vietnam Papers: A Documentary Collection edited by David Barrett
  • Taking Charge: The Johnson Whitehouse Tapes 1963-64 edited by Michael Beschloss
  • Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes edited by Stanley Kutler
  • The Other Missiles of October: Eisenhower, Kennedy and the Jupiters, 1957-63 by Philip Nash

• A Regular Bull · 31 July 1997

  • Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus

• The Trouble with HRH · 5 June 1997

  • Princess Margaret: A Biography by Theo Aronson

• Bill and Dick’s Excellent Adventure · 20 February 1997

  • Behind the Oval Office: Winning the Presidency in the Nineties by Dick Morris

• National Treasure · 14 November 1996

  • Jacqueline Bouvier: An Intimate Memoir by John Davis

• A Hard Dog to Keep on the Porch · 6 June 1996

• The Cruiser · 22 February 1996

  • On the Eve of the Millennium: The Future of Democracy through an Age of Unreason by Conor Cruise O’Brien

• Diary · 14 December 1995

• After-Time · 19 October 1995

  • Palimpsest: A Memoir by Gore Vidal

• Newtopia · 24 August 1995

  • To Renew America by Newt Gingrich

• Look over your shoulder · 25 May 1995

• Diary · 20 April 1995

• Lucky Kim · 23 February 1995

  • The Philby Files. The Secret Life of the Master Spy: KGB Archives Revealed by Genrikh Borovik, edited by Phillip Knightley
  • The Fifth Man by Roland Perry
  • Treason in the Blood: H. St John Philby, Kim Philby and the Spy Case of the Century by Anthony Cave Brown
  • My Five Cambridge Friends by Yuri Modin
  • Looking for Mr Nobody: The Secret Life of Goronwy Rees by Jenny Rees

• Gotterdämmerung · 12 January 1995

• Who Runs Britain? · 8 December 1994

  • The Enemy Within: MI5, Maxwell and the Scargill Affair by Seumas Milne

• On Spanking · 20 October 1994

  • A Guide to the Correction of Young Gentlemen or, The Successful Administration of Physical Discipline to Males, by Females by a Lady, with illustrations by a Former Pupil

• Strait is the gate · 21 July 1994

  • Watergate: The Corruption and Fall of Richard Nixon by Fred Emery
  • The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House by H.R. Haldeman

• Every Latest Spasm · 23 June 1994

  • A Rebel in Defence of Tradition: The Life and ‘Politics’ of Dwight Macdonald by Michael Wreszin

• Diary · 24 February 1994

• In the bright autumn of my senescence · 6 January 1994

  • In the Heat of the Struggle: Twenty-Five Years of ‘Socialist Worker’ by Paul Foot
  • Why You Should Join the Socialists by Paul Foot

• Say what you will about Harold · 2 December 1993

  • Wilson: The Authorised Life by Philip Ziegler

• Diary · 4 November 1993

• Mary, Mary · 8 April 1993

  • Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover by Anthony Summers

• Oh, Lionel! · 3 December 1992

  • P.G. Wodehouse: Man and Myth by Barry Phelps

• Touch of Evil · 22 October 1992

  • Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson

• Why Bosnia matters · 10 September 1992

• Washington Diary · 20 August 1992

• Liber Amoris · 28 May 1992

  • The Russian Girl by Kingsley Amis

• Booze and Fags · 12 March 1992

  • Tobacco: A History by V.G. Kiernan
  • The Faber Book of Drink, Drinkers and Drinking edited by Simon Rae

• Pretending to write ‘Vile Bodies’ · 9 January 1992

  • Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy by Ben Sonnenberg

• On the imagining of conspiracy · 7 November 1991

  • Harlot’s Ghost by Norman Mailer
  • A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs by Theodore Draper

• Tales from the Bunker · 10 October 1991

• Simply too exhausted · 25 July 1991

  • Edwina Mountbatten: A Life of Her Own by Janet Morgan

• Bravo, old sport · 4 April 1991

  • Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Post-War America by Neil Jumonville

• Washington Diary · 7 February 1991

• What is this Bernard? · 10 January 1991

  • Good and Faithful Servant: The Unauthorised Biography of Bernard Ingham by Robert Harris

• Tio Sam · 20 December 1990

  • In the Time of the Tyrants: Panama 1968-89 by R.M. Koster and Guillermo Sanchez Borbon

• How’s the vampire? · 8 November 1990

  • King Edward VIII: The Official Biography by Philip Ziegler

• Christopher Hitchens states a prosecution case · 25 October 1990

  • Crossman: The Pursuit of Power by Anthony Howard

• Diary · 13 September 1990

• Heart of Darkness · 28 June 1990

  • Not Many Dead: Journal of a Year in Fleet Street by Nicholas Garland
  • A Slight Case of Libel: Meacher v. Trelford and Others by Alan Watkins

• Thousands of Cans and Cartons · 24 May 1990

  • Against the Grain: An Autobiography by Boris Yeltsin, translated by Michael Glenny

• Reader, he married her · 10 May 1990

  • Tom Driberg: His Life and Indiscretions by Francis Wheen

• Christopher Hitchens on the great question of the day · 8 March 1990

  • The Dialectic of Change by Boris Kagarlitsky, translated by Rick Simon

• Siding with Rushdie · 26 October 1989

  • The Rushdie File edited by Lisa Appignanesi and Sara Maitland
  • CounterBlasts No 4: Sacred Cows by Fay Weldon
  • Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation by Timothy Brennan

• Diary · 12 October 1989

• Credibility Brown · 17 August 1989

  • Where there is greed: Margaret Thatcher and the Betrayal of Britain’s Future by Gordon Brown
  • CounterBlasts No 3: A Rational Advance for the Labour Party by John Lloyd

• At the Party · 17 April 1986

  • Hollywood Babylon II by Kenneth Anger
  • Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan by Robin Wood

• Diary · 3 October 1985

• The Wrong Stuff · 1 April 1983

  • The Purple Decades by Tom Wolfe

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