December 9, 2017

What Hitchens was trying to do (and why it matters)

Dead Authors What dead author would you most like to meet? For me, it would be Samuel Johnson. Or Plato. And, more recently deceased, Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011). Responding to this question himself in an interview he gave in 2005, Hitchens pondered first George Eliot and Nabokov. Then he named George […]