Category Archives: Hitchens (Christopher)

Hitchens: A Life Lived in Literature

By Robin Bates | Published: December 19, 2011

Even in his final days, Christopher Hitchens was having active discussions about novels, poems and plays. He understood how much was at stake in literature.

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Christopher Hitchens, Literary Bully

By Robin Bates | Published: July 6, 2010

Christopher Hitchens  I confess to bristling when I hear the name Christopher Hitchens. The intellectual provocateur has been in the news recently, first for publishing his memoirs and second for contracting throat cancer. Although he is smart and well read, he has always struck me as a self-righteous intellectual bully, one who is more interested [...]

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