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Christopher Hitchens bibliography

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Christopher Hitchens reading his book Hitch-22 (2010)

Christopher Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a prolific British and American author, political journalist and literary critic. His books, essays, and journalistic career spanned more than four decades. Recognized as a public intellectual, he was a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. Hitchens was a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and a variety of other media outlets.

Books

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Sole author

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External videos
video icon Washington Journal interview with Hitchens on No One Left To Lie To, April 30, 1999, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Hitchens on The Trial of Henry Kissinger, June 28, 2001, C-SPAN
video icon Washington Journal interview with Hitchens on Letters to a Young Contrarian, November 11, 2001, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Hitchens on Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, June 17, 2005, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Hitchens on Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, May 6, 2006, C-SPAN
video icon Interview with Hitchens on Hitch-22, May 27, 2010, C-SPAN
  • 1984 Cyprus. Quartet. Revised editions as Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger, 1989 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and 1997 (Verso). ISBN 978-0-704-32436-7
  • 1987 Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles. Chatto and Windus (UK)/Hill and Wang (US, 1988) / 1997 UK Verso edition as The Elgin Marbles: Should They Be Returned to Greece? (with essays by Robert Browning and Graham Binns). Reissued and updated 2008 as The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Reunification, Verso. ISBN 978-0-809-04189-3
  • 1990 Blood, Class, and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Reissued 2004, with a new introduction, as Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship, Nation Books, ISBN 1-56025-592-7
  • 1999 No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton. Verso. Reissued as No One Left to Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family in 2000. ISBN 978-1-859-84736-7
  • 2001 The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Verso. ISBN 1-85984-631-9
  • 2001 Letters to a Young Contrarian. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-03033-5
  • 2002 Why Orwell Matters, Basic Books ISBN 0-465-03050-5. (US edition)

Pamphlets

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Essays

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External videos
video icon Booknotes interview with Hitchens on For the Sake of Argument, October 17, 1993, C-SPAN

Collaborations

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  • 1976 Callaghan, The Road to Number Ten (with Peter Kellner). Cassell, ISBN 0-304-29768-2
  • 1988 Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question (contributor; co-editor with Edward Said). Verso, ISBN 0-86091-887-4. Reissued, 2001.
  • 1994 When Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds (with Ed Kashi). Pantheon Books.
  • 1994 International Territory: The United Nations, 1945-1995 (with Adam Bartos). Verso.
  • 2000 Vanity Fair's Hollywood, Graydon Carter and David Friend (editors). Viking Studio.
  • 2019 The Four Horsemen: The Discussion that Sparked an Atheist Revolution, (with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Stephen Fry). Bantam Press.

Co-author or co-editor

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Contributor

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  • 2005 Religion, Culture, and International Conflict: A Conversation, Michael Cromartie (editor). Rowman & Littlefield.
  • 2005 A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq, Thomas Cushman (editor). University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-24555-5
  • 2011 The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism, Windsor Mann (editor). Da Capo Press.

Book introductions, forewords and prefaces

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Book reviews

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Year Review article Work(s) reviewed
2009 "The man in full". The Atlantic. 303 (5): 83–87. June 2009.[2] Hemingway, Ernest (2009). A moveable feast : the restored edition. Scribner. ISBN 9781416591313.
2009 "The zealot : Arthur Koestler's manic intellectual career". The Atlantic. 304 (5): 103–107. December 2009. Scammell, Michael. Koestler : the literary and political odyssey of a Twentieth-Century sceptic. Random House.

Dedicatee

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Books dedicated to Hitchens:

References

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  1. ^ Gardner, Dwight (1 January 2024). "Want to Feel, Intellectually, Like Someone Is Rotating Your Tires? - This bracing anthology of Christopher Hitchens's work for The London Review of Books is just the ticket. (updated 17 January 2024)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 1 January 2024. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
  2. ^ Online version is titled "Hemingway's libidinous feast".