9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
This bracing anthology of Christopher Hitchens’s work for The London Review of Books is just the ticket.
By Dwight Garner
In books like “Money” and “The Information,” he created “a high style to describe low things,” as he put it. He found more renown as a critic, and a measure of unease as his famous father’s son.
By Dwight Garner
Carol Blue-Hitchens and her late husband’s literary agent are discouraging friends from participating in a book tentatively titled “Pamphleteer: The Life and Times of Christopher Hitchens.”
By Elizabeth A. Harris
Our compromised liberalism has left a generation of writers weighing their words in fear.
By Bret Stephens
A friend of Christopher Hitchens writes that “there is simply no truth to the rumor” that he abandoned atheism at the end of his life.
A new book says the impious author of “God Is Not Great” might have been exploring faith before he died in 2011. Mr. Hitchens’s secular friends disagree.
By Mark Oppenheimer
At Redeemer Presbyterian Church on the Upper West Side, weekly sessions seek converts among a fervent and growing number of atheists in this country.
By Samuel G. Freedman
Hitchens and Scruton assess thinkers, writers and political figures.
By Damon Linker
This collection of Mr. Hitchens’s essays, book reviews and reported pieces covers topics political, social and literary.
By Dwight Garner
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