Christopher Hitchens misses out on Orwell prize shortlist
Shortlist for £3,000 prize focuses on books with 'a dark content', from Misha Glenny's Dark Market to Richard Lloyd Parry's People Who Eat DarknessThe late Christopher Hitchens has missed out on a place on the Orwell prize shortlist for his career-spa...
Christopher Hitchens’ wit and warmth remembered as New York pays tribute
Salman Rushdie and Martin Amis among those at Cooper Union to celebrate life and work of 'pioneer at the frontier'"Little Keith" called him a suffering auto-contrarian and likened him to Houdini; Graydon Carter said he was a "bit of a scallywag" but an...
Ebooks roundup: Hitler, Hitchens and a hot erotic hit
The latest Vita Sackville-West revival is a surprising work of speculative fiction, three classic Hitchens polemics get new digital life, and EL James steams up e-reader screens with Fifty Shades of GreyI was intrigued this month by a strange and strik...
Christopher Hitchens longlisted for the Orwell prize
Arguably, Hitchens's final volume of essays, joins 17 other works selected by judges from a record submission of 264 booksChristopher Hitchens has been longlisted for the Orwell prize for a second year running. His final volume of essays, Arguably, joi...
Moon on a Rainbow Shawl; Can We Talk about This?; Shivered – review
Cottesloe; Lyttelton; Southwark Playhouse; all LondonIn 1957 Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, by Errol John, a young Trinidadian, won an Observer drama contest. The task was to write a play set after the second world war. The judges were Peter Hall, Michael Ba...
Moon on a Rainbow Shawl; Can We Talk about This?; Shivered – review
Cottesloe; Lyttelton; Southwark Playhouse; all LondonIn 1957 Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, by Errol John, a young Trinidadian, won an Observer drama contest. The task was to write a play set after the second world war. The judges were Peter Hall, Michael Ba...
Christopher Hitchens’ Final Vanity Fair Essay
Today Vanity Fair published Christopher Hitchens‘ final essay for the magazine, an inspiring tribute to Charles Dickens.
The journalist and author passed away last month after a battle with cancer. If Hitchens’ tribute to a great author in...
The pick of paperbacks in 2011
From quirky skits to heart-breaking memoir, it's been a great yearOne of the most pleasant surprises of the year has been the way people seem to be abandoning their distrust of foreign fiction in translation. When I raved about Diego Marani's New Finni...
The pick of paperbacks in 2011
From quirky skits to heart-breaking memoir, it's been a great yearOne of the most pleasant surprises of the year has been the way people seem to be abandoning their distrust of foreign fiction in translation. When I raved about Diego Marani's New Finni...
Letters: Reflections of the death of Christopher Hitchens
Two major international figures have just died. One, Vic Finkelstein, made a difference in the lives of untold thousands through the pioneering role he played in the disabled people's movement. The other, Chris Hitchens, cannot be seen to have made any...
The readers’ editor on… how too much coverage of some people can annoy