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Wodehouse (riffed on in this collection) to Mother Teresa (whom Hitchens argued was “a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud”).Ĭontemplating a figure like Hitchens, who in his later years was both a warmonger embraced by the right and a proselytizing atheist idolized in collegiate quads, throws into stark relief how dramatically the ideological and critical landscape has shifted since he died. These are compelling questions, not least because Hitchens trained much of his own trenchant wit (and 80-proof outrage) on relitigating the dead, from P.G. I’d been working as a lowly scrub at the Nation in New York when, in 1979, I was asked to track down Christopher Hitchens on a trip I happened to be taking to London. Travel & Experiences Christopher Hitchens: Why did I adore him? What to make of Hitchens, both the persona and the prose, today? Now, a dozen years after his death, the publication of “ A Hitch in Time,” a new book of previously uncollected essays, offers, among other pleasures, an excuse to engage in another round of this parlor game.

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Instead, as the parties debated Hitchens’ possible misogyny, the shelf life of his deadline writing and the degree to which his stubbornness was his Achilles’ heel, there was rancor, barbed criticism and erudite defenses - a fitting intellectual wake for a writer with an insatiable thirst for argument and free expression. Maybe because it was too soon to forecast posterity’s verdict, consensus was not reached. Organized by Salman Rushdie, an old chum and frequent subject of “the Hitch,” the PEN-sponsored event featured a smattering of Hitchens’ colleagues, among them Vanity Fair’s former editor Graydon Carter and Katha Pollitt of the Nation. The irrepressible author and public contrarian had died, of esophageal cancer, less than six months earlier. In May of 2012, a panel was convened to debate whether the work of Christopher Hitchens would stand the test of time. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.

A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration

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