His column in Free Inquiry will be missed by many, me included. His life has been very fruitful. To honor him on line, let’s hyperlink to his work so that Google knows we believe it is worth linking to. Hitchens’ bibliography according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_Christopher_Hitchens:
Books Sole author
1984 Cyprus. Quartet. Revised editions as Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger, 1989 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and 1997 (Verso).
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.
1988 Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports. Hill and Wang (US)/Chatto and Windus (UK).
1990 The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain’s Favorite Fetish. Chatto & Windus, 1990.
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)
1993 For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports. Verso, ISBN 0-86-091435-6
1995 The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice. Verso.
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.
2000 Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere. Verso
2001 The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Verso.
2001 Letters to a Young Contrarian. Basic Books.
2002 Why Orwell Matters, Basic Books (US)/UK edition as Orwell’s Victory, Allen Lane/The Penguin Press.
2003 A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq. Plume Books. Originally released as Regime Change (Penguin).
2004 Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays. Thunder’s Mouth, Nation Books, ISBN 1-56025-580-3
2005 Thomas Jefferson: Author of America. Eminent Lives/Atlas Books/HarperCollins Publishers, ISBN 0-06-059896-4
2006 Thomas Paine’s "Rights of Man": A Biography. Books That Shook the World/Atlantic Books, ISBN 1-84354-513-6
2007 God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Twelve/Hachette Book Group USA/Warner Books, ISBN 0446579807 / Published in the UK as God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion. Atlantic Books, ISBN 978-1-84354-586-6
2010 Hitch-22 Some Confessions and Contradictions: A Memoir . Hachette Book Group. ISBN 9780446540339 (published by Allen and Unwin in Australia in May 2010 with the shorter title: Hitch-22. A Memoir.) ISBN 978-1-74175-962-4
2011 Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens. Twelve. UK edition as Arguably: Selected Prose. Atlantic.
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.
2002 Left Hooks, Right Crosses: A Decade of Political Writing (co-editor, with Christopher Caldwell).
2008 Is Christianity Good for the World? – A Debate (co-author, with Douglas Wilson). Canon Press, ISBN 1-59128-053-2.
2008 Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq and the Left (co-author, with other contributions edited by Simon Cottee and Thomas Cushman). New York University Press.
2010 The Best American Essays 2010 (co-editor with Robert Atwan). Mariner Books.
2011 Hitchens vs. Blair: Be it Resolved, Religion is a Force of Good in the World (co-author with Tony Blair). House of Anansi Press.
Contributor
2000 Vanity Fair’s Hollywood, Graydon Carter and David Friend (editors). Viking Studio.
2005 A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq, Thomas Cushman (editor). University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-24555-5
2008. Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq and the Left (co-edited by Simon Cottee and Thomas Cushman). New York University Press.
2011 The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism, Windsor Mann (editor). Da Capo Press.
It’s sad to know he is gone. I was not a great admirer of Hitch until his battle with cancer, which he dealt with in an extraordinarily open and honest fashion. He was always a great writer and polemicist, of course.
It’s sad to know he is gone. I was not a great admirer of Hitch until his battle with cancer, which he dealt with in an extraordinarily open and honest fashion. He was always a great writer and polemicist, of course.
Just out of curiosity, what did you dislike about him?
His obit was mentioned on the ribbon at CNN this morning. He was definitely the “bulldog” of the 4 horsemen. His books were a great read and learning tool.
It’s sad to know he is gone. I was not a great admirer of Hitch until his battle with cancer, which he dealt with in an extraordinarily open and honest fashion. He was always a great writer and polemicist, of course.
Just out of curiosity, what did you dislike about him?
I found his polemics too often arrogant, nasty and unpleasant. Though as I say, very well-spoken and written. More of the clear-eyed humility came out at the end, and I found that easier to embrace.
Even though I often disagreed with Hitchens approach, I will give him credit for bringing muich attention to our life stance. He had a knack for keeping things from getting boring. My condolences to his loved ones.
He was quite a public skeptic, this is a real loss to the skeptical movement. I think that he gave some good pushes to move public opinion and broadcast media. I think we could use more public skeptics.
Although I never supported the Iraq war, I’m curious to hear some more of his views.
After reading many online comments about Hitch’s death, it seems very clear there was a big divide among the freethinking world in regards to his standing; more than a few freethinkers are glad he is dead. His views on terrorism, the Iraq war, Mother Teresa ect. pissed a lot of progressive people off.
