16 December 2011 Last updated at 06:21 GMT Vanity Fair’s editor said those who read him felt they knew him British author, literary critic and journalist Christopher Hitchens has died, aged 62, according to Vanity Fair magazine. He died from pneumonia, a complication of the oesophageal cancer he was suffering from, at a Texas hospital. [...]
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December 16, 2011
Writer Christopher Hitchens dies
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December 9, 2011
VIDEO: Leibovitz’s ‘voyage of discovery’
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Annie Leibovitz’s new book and exhibition, Pilgrimage, looks at places associated with the historical American figures which fascinate her. The book pictures the homes and other places associated with US historical figures as varied as Abraham Lincoln, Elvis Presley and Louisa May Alcott (author of Little Women). Leibovitz says the photographs are a set of [...]
November 17, 2011
Katrina novel wins US book award
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17 November 2011 Last updated at 09:59 GMT Author Ward (far right) was in Mississippi with her family when Hurricane Katrina hit A novel about a Mississippi family confronting Hurricane Katrina has won the US National Book Award for fiction. The judges praised Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones for its use of “piercing metaphor and [...]
November 15, 2011
Ehrenreich: Democratic establishment abandoned Occupy Wall Street
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Author Barbara Ehrenreich accused Barack Obama and the Democratic establishment of betraying the Occupy movement on Tuesday by failing to stop the evictions from Zuccotti Park. Ehrenreich, who has championed the struggles of working class Americans in books such as Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America said her outrage at the police [...]
November 4, 2011
Former headmaster may have inspired one of JFK’s most famous lines
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A document discovered at the boarding school attended by John F Kennedy has boosted a theory that a former headmaster provided inspiration for one of the most famous lines the president delivered. A notebook where the Choate Rosemary Hall headmaster kept fodder for his sermons included a quote from a Harvard University dean who wrote: [...]
September 29, 2011
Federal worker says WikiLeaks link led to interrogation
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September 29, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Federal worker says WikiLeaks link led to interrogation 28 Sep 2011 In December 2010, the White House warned federal workers not to read classified cables released by WikiLeaks. In September, an author and State Department employee says he learned the government takes that directive seriously. Peter Van Buren, the [...]