Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011)
Auteur de Dieu n'est pas grand : Comment la religion empoisonne tout
A propos de l'auteur
Christopher Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, England on April 13, 1949. He was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and wrote for numerous other publications throughout his lifetime. He was the author of numerous books including No One Left to Lie To, For the Sake of Argument, Prepared for the afficher plus Worst, God Is Not Great, Hitch-22: A Memoir, and Arguably. He died due to complication from esophageal cancer on December 15, 2011 at the age of 62. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Christopher Hitchens
Le mythe de mere Teresa, ou comment devenir une sainte de son vivant grace a un excellent plan media (1995) 951 exemplaires
The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism--The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens (2011) 240 exemplaires
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question (1988) — Directeur de publication — 190 exemplaires
Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) (2017) 50 exemplaires
Left Hooks, Right Crosses: A Decade of Political Writing (2002) — Directeur de publication — 46 exemplaires
American Presidents Eminent Lives Boxed Set: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant (2005) — Contributeur — 29 exemplaires
Hitch Attacks: "No One Left to Lie", "The Missionary Position", "The Trial of Henry Kissinger" (2012) 4 exemplaires
Christopher Hitchens in Conversation with Salman Rushdie 2 exemplaires
Cristianismo e Bom para o Mundo?, O 2 exemplaires
The Embarrassment of the Riches 1 exemplaire
By Hitchens, Christopher God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Paperback - March 2008 1 exemplaire
God Is Not Great, Hitch 22: A Memoir and Arguably 3 Books Collection Set By Christopher Hitchens - How Religion Poisons… (2017) 1 exemplaire
'The Old Man' in The Atlantic Monthly, July/Aug 2004 [review of new ed of Deutscher's Trotsky (3 vols)] 1 exemplaire
'Young men in shorts' in The Atlantic Monthly, June 2004 [review of Baden-Powell's 'Scouting for Boys: the original… 1 exemplaire
'French lessons' in AFR, 27 Oct 2006 [review of Horne's 'A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962'] 1 exemplaire
Why women aren't funny 1 exemplaire
On the limits of self-improvement 1 exemplaire
'Edward Said: if only his political judgment had matched his intelligence & moral sensitivity' in Slate, 26 Sept 2003 1 exemplaire
'Brief shining moments' in LRB 20/4, 19 Feb 1998 1 exemplaire
The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Volume 306, Number 2, September 2010 Israel Is Gettig Ready to Bomb Iran * Christopher… (2010) 1 exemplaire
'Proust's Way: ... the acutest ear in Paris' in AFR, 27 Feb 2004 [review of 'Swann's Way'] 1 exemplaire
Christopher Hitchens 1 exemplaire
Greenspan Shrugged 1 exemplaire
'Trotsky: a man of some purpose' in AFR, 13 Aug 2004 [review of new ed of Deutscher's Trotsky (3 vols) 1 exemplaire
Talk Live-John Metzger 1 exemplaire
une portée de chiens 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Le Meilleur des mondes, suivi de Retour au meilleur des mondes (1932) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 4,424 exemplaires
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia (1941) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 1,697 exemplaires
Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis (1983) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 442 exemplaires
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Contributeur — 429 exemplaires
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Ten Years of the Claremont Review of Books (2012) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
The Atlantic Monthly July / August 2011 (Feature) the Annual Ideas Issue, the Trouble with Good Parents, the Case for… (2011) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Harper's Magazine 1989 Oct. — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Hitchens, Christopher
- Nom légal
- Hitchens, Christopher Eric
- Date de naissance
- 1949-04-13
- Date de décès
- 2011-12-15
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
UK (birth) - Lieu de naissance
- Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Houston, Texas, USA
- Cause du décès
- Hitchens died from esophageal cancer.
- Lieux de résidence
- Washington, D.C., USA
Malta
England, UK - Études
- The Leys School
University of Oxford (BA ∙ Balliol College ∙ 3rd class degree, Philosophy-Politics-Economics) - Professions
- journalist
social critic - Relations
- Hitchens, Peter (brother)
Amis, Martin (friend) - Organisations
- National Secular Society
International Socialism (journal)
Times Higher Education
New Statesman
The Nation
Evening Standard (tout afficher 15)
Daily Express
Harper's Magazine
The Spectator
The Times Literary Supplement
New York Newsday
Vanity Fair
The Atlantic Monthly
Slate
The New School - Prix et distinctions
- Lannan Literary Award (Nonfiction, 1991)
Richard Dawkins Award (2011)
LennonOno Grant for Peace (2012)
National Magazine Award for Columns (2007, 2011, 2012)
The Orwell Prize – Special Prize (2012)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 78
- Aussi par
- 38
- Membres
- 26,663
- Popularité
- #780
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 590
- ISBN
- 415
- Langues
- 17
- Favoris
- 148
Concerning those who declined to criticize the fatwa against Salman Rushdie because of their purported multiculturalism: It is impossible to be sufficiently irritated by such people.
Of the Mormon church's International Genealogical Index: a classical piece of micro-megalomania where the monstrous scale of the effort dwarfs the essential pettiness of the enterprise.
Of antisemitism: A dead giveaway, in distinguishing the obsessive or morbid antisemite from the garden variety, is an inability to stay off the subject.
Concerning Sir Rhodes Boyson's comment that caning had done him no harm: Why do people invariably make this claim; usually before anyone has asked them?
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Problems with this collection included:
1. the sometimes eventual numbing pattern of Hitchen's writing that recalled Wolcott Gibbs' famous satire of Time magazine, Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.
2. pieces about which I knew little – I know who Harold Wilson was, but it was difficult to follow arch comments about the members of his cabinet and their friends and acquaintances.
3. Hitch could, it is said, bang these essays out in a very short time. In some cases, the structure of the essay might have benefited from slightly longer contemplation.… (plus d'informations)