My Beloved ex-Trotskyist Popinjay
My favorite living writer, Christopher Hitchens, has been diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus. I suppose, with his habits, some form of illness was inevitable. When we met two months ago at NYU, he came out of a lecture hall with a triple of Johnny Walker Black and a cigarette. However, Hitchens won’t be Hitchens without his trademark accessories.
Here are some articles, from a variety of topics, worth noting from him:
A Death in the Family, Vanity Fair
Kissenger Declassified, Vanity Fair
Last Call, Bohemia, Vanity Fair
Assassins of the Mind, Vanity Fair
The Morals of an Atheist, The Hoover Institution
Abolish the CIA, Slate
A Fault is not a Sin, Slate
Reactionary Prophet, The Atlantic
The Wartime Toll on Germany, The Atlantic
In addition, I recommend his weekly column for Slate and all – yes, all – of his books. (Particularly ‘Letters to a Young Contrarian’ and his biography of Thomas Jefferson.) Get better, Hitch.