![]() ![]() ![]() Of his early life, Hitch writes with wit and surprising candor, right down to his adolescent crushes on other boys and the “vigorous” sessions of “mutual relief” that took place in the dorms of his English boarding school. But rarely has the Hitch taken such exacting measure of his own life, his own shortcomings and contradictions: He tells us that a 2008 typo in the magazine of London’s National Portrait Gallery, which mentioned the late Christopher Hitchens, prompted his lengthy reflection on all three. ![]() “It is not possible for long,” Christopher Hitchens writes in his memoir, Hitch-22, “to be just a little heretical.” And no polemicist delights in his heresies as much as Hitchens does.įor almost four decades, this columnist for The Atlantic, Vanity Fair and Slate has made a prominent literary career out of unapologetically calling things as he sees them, whether that means skewering the reputations of religious leaders (the outspoken atheist and author of God is Not Great famously called Mother Teresa the “ghoul of Calcutta”) or enumerating the depredations of political ones (both Bill Clinton and Henry Kissinger are, to Hitchens, “indescribably loathsome”). ![]()
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