The writer, journalist and contrarian Christopher Hitchens has died at the age of 62 after crossing the border into the “land of malady” on being diagnosed with an oesophageal cancer in June 2010. Vanity Fair, for which he had written since 1992 and was made contributing editor, marked his death in a memorial article posted [...]
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December 16, 2011
December 16, 2011
December 16, 2011
September 16, 2011
Arguably by Christopher Hitchens – review
There are, at a rough count, 36 references to George Orwell in this voluminous collection of Christopher Hitchens‘s journalism from the past decade. Hitchens has good claims to be Orwell’s successor, and he would certainly agree with his hero’s argument, in “Politics and the English Language“, that bad politics leads to bad language, that a [...]