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The Books: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays, ‘Visit to a Small Planet’, by Christopher Hitchens
On the essays shelf: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays Anyone who’s read me for a while knows my fascination with totalitarian countries, autocracies, dictatorships, group brainwashing masked as ideological fervor, the whole nine yards. I actually could spend … Continue reading
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The Books: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays, ‘The Strange Case of David Irving’, by Christopher Hitchens
On the essays shelf: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays A 2001 joint book review from the Los Angeles Times: Hitchens reviewing The Holocaust on Trial, by D.D. Guttenplan, and Lying about Hitler, by Richard J. Evans. In discussing … Continue reading
The Books: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays, ‘It Happened on Sunset’, by Christopher Hitchens
On the essays shelf: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays In this 1995 essay for Vanity Fair, about the history of Sunset Boulevard, Hitchens gives Joan Didion a run for her money in delving into the history (social, cultural, … Continue reading
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The Books: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays, ‘Joyce in Bloom’, by Christopher Hitchens
On the essays shelf: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays Hitchens’ article, “Joyce in Bloom,” appeared in the June, 2004 issue of Vanity Fair. June, of course, is Bloomsday Month, an event I celebrate every year on my site … Continue reading
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The Books: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays, ‘Scoop’, by Christopher Hitchens
On the essays shelf: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays It is because of Hitchens’ writing that I read Scoop, by Evelyn Waugh, thereby closing an unforgivable gap in my reading history. How could it be I had never … Continue reading
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The Books: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays, ‘The Old Man’, by Christopher Hitchens
On the essays shelf: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays Isaac Deutscher wrote a three-volume biography of Leon Trotsky (which I have not read: I mean, life is short, you know? I’m sure it’s amazing). Deutscher’s history is an … Continue reading
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The Books: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays, ‘A Man of Permanent Contradictions’, by Christopher Hitchens
On the essays shelf: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays Time to move on from Mark Twain! It is with regret that I say Farewell! But we’re moving into Hitchens-Land, a guy I miss to this day. I ACHE … Continue reading
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