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Merely a date-sorted Table of Contents for the book. (Printable pdf)
Of note: * Hitchens has said in interviews that he responded to the news by keeping his two appointments for later in the day, one of which was an appearance on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. His only Daily Show appearance since 2007 was on June 8, 2010, supporting Hitch-22. (His other Daily Show appearances are Apr. 30, 2007 promoting God Is Not Great, Aug. 25, 2005 for Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, and Dec. 1, 2004 for Love, Poverty, and War.)


Page

Length

Title

Publication

Pub Date

640

11

Imagining Hitler

Vanity Fair

Feb 99

117

6

Old Enough to Die

Vanity Fair

June 99

276

13

Anthony Powell: An Omnivorous Curiosity

Atlantic

June 01

347

5

C. L. R. James: Mid Off, Not Right On

Times Literary Supplement

Jan 18, 2002

47

6

Upton Sinclair: A Capitalist Primer

Atlantic

July/Aug 02

625

14

Martin Amis: Lightness At Midnight

Atlantic

Sep 02

108

8

Political Animals

Atlantic

Nov 02

585

9

Victor Serge: Pictures From An Inquisition

Atlantic

Dec 02

673

10

W. G. Sebald: Requiem for Germany

Atlantic

Jan/Feb 2003

480

12

The Perils of Partition

Atlantic

Mar 03

250

14

Evelyn Waugh: The Permanent Adolescent

Atlantic

May 03

228

8

On "Animal Farm" [Introduction to Animal Farm and 1984]

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

June 1, 2003

54

7

JFK: In Sickness and By Stealth

Times Literary Supplement

Aug 22, 2003

504

8

Edward Said: Where the Twain Should Have Met

Atlantic

Sep 03

40

6

Mark Twain: American Radical

Atlantic

Nov 03

290

6

John Buchan: Spy ThrillerÕs Father

Atlantic

Mar 04

152

12

Edmund Burke: Reactionary Prophet

Atlantic

April 04

242

7

W. Somerset Maugham: Poor Old Willie

Atlantic

May 04

745

2

A Very, Very Dirty Word

Slate

July 6, 2004

265

10

P. G. Wodehouse: The Honorable Schoolboy

Atlantic

Nov 04

435

9

AfghanistanÕs Dangerous Bet

Vanity Fair

Nov 04

652

8

Victor Klemperer: Survivor

Atlantic

Dec 04

332

7

Stephen Spender: A Nice Bloody Fool

Atlantic

Jan/Feb 2005

8

3

The Private Jefferson

Wilson Quarterly

Spring 2005

297

10

Graham Greene: IÕll Be Damned

Atlantic

Mar 05

716

2

Burned Out

Slate

Mar 7, 2005

733

2

This Was Not Looting

Slate

Mar 15, 2005

719

2

Easter Charade

Slate

Mar 28, 2005

595

6

André Malraux: One ManÕs Fate

NYT Book Review

April 10, 2005

607

9

Isabel Allende: Chile Redux [Introduction to House of the Spirits]

Everyman's Library

Apr 19, 2005

28

5

John Brown: The Man Who Ended Slavery

Atlantic

May 05

553

2

Worse Than "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

Slate

May 2, 2005

726

3

History and Mystery

Slate

May 16, 2005

455

11

IranÕs Waiting Game

Vanity Fair

July 05

21

6

Benjamin Franklin: Free and Easy

Atlantic

Nov 05

70

7

Vladimir Nabokov: Hurricane Lolita

Atlantic

Dec 05

697

6

Let Them Eat Pork Rinds

Vanity Fair

Dec 05

365

9

Fleet StreetÕs Finest: From Waugh to Frayn

Guardian (London)

Dec 3, 2005

535

5

ChildhoodÕs End: An African Nightmare

Vanity Fair

Jan 06

171

3

Gustave Flaubert: IÕm With Stupide

NYT Book Review

Jan 22, 2006

704

4

Stand Up for Denmark!

Slate

Feb 21, 2006

358

6

FraserÕs Flashman: Scoundrel Time

Vanity Fair

Mar 06

569

3

Overstating Jewish Power

Slate

Mar 27, 2006

78

6

John Updike: No Way

Atlantic

June 06

403

7

As American As Apple Pie

Vanity Fair

Jul 06

617

7

The Persian Version

Atlantic

July/Aug 2006

541

6

The Vietnam Syndrome

Vanity Fair

Aug 2006

559

3

The Eighteenth Brumaire of the Castro Dynasty

Slate

Aug 7, 2006

237

4

Jessica MitfordÕs Poison Pen

Atlantic

Oct 06

493

4

Algeria: A French Quarrel

Atlantic

Nov 06

709

2

Eschew the Taboo

Slate

Dec 4, 2006

3

4

Gods of Our Fathers: The United States of Enlightenment

Weekly Standard

Dec 11, 2006

389

7

Why Women ArenÕt Funny

Vanity Fair

Jan 07

191

30

Rebecca West: Things Worth Fighting For [Introduction to Black Lamb and Grey Falcon]

Penguin classics

Jan 30, 2007

12

8

Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates

City Journal

Spring 2007

498

5

The Case of Orientalism

Atlantic

Mar 07

712

3

SheÕs No Fundamentalist

Slate

Mar 5, 2007

519

6

Holiday In Iraq

Vanity Fair

Apr 07

739

2

The You Decade

Slate

Apr 9, 2007

742

2

Suck It Up

Slate

Apr 26, 2007

180

10

MarxÕs Journalism: The Grub Street Years

Guardian (London)

June 16, 2007

526

5

Tunisia: At the DesertÕs Edge

Vanity Fair

Jul 07

722

3

DonÕt Mince Words

Slate

July 2, 2007

308

14

Death From a Salesman: Graham GreeneÕs Bottled Ontology [Introduction to Our Man in Havana]

Penguin classics

July 31, 2007

380

5

Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived

NYT Book Review

Aug 12, 2007

99

8

An Anglosphere Future

City Journal

Fall 07

411

2

So Many MenÕs Rooms, So Little Time

Slate

Sep 1, 2007

62

7

Saul Bellow: The Great Assimilator

Atlantic

Nov 07

85

3

John Updike: Mr. Geniality

NYT Book Review

Nov 4, 2007

471

2

Benazir Bhutto: Daughter of Destiny

Slate

Dec 27, 2007

730

2

Words Matter

Slate

Mar 3, 2008

222

5

Ezra Pound: A Revolutionary Simpleton

Atlantic

April 08

139

6

Isaac Newton: Flaws of Gravity

Vanity Fair online

Apr 14, 2008

669

3

Just Give Peace a Chance?

New Statesman

May 19, 2008

426

2

Wine Drinkers of the World, Unite

Slate

May 26, 2008

375

4

Saki: Where the Wild Things Are

Atlantic

June 2008

661

7

A War Worth Fighting

Newsweek

June 23, 2008

448

6

Believe Me, ItÕs Torture

Vanity Fair

Aug 2008

573

8

The Case For Humanitarian Intervention

Foreign Affairs

Sep/Oct 2008

94

4

America the Banana Republic

Vanity Fair online

Oct 9, 2008

748

1.5

Prisoner of Shelves

City Journal

Winter 2008

165

5

Samuel Johnson: Demons and Dictionaries

Atlantic

Mar 09

340

6

Edward Upward: The Captive Mind

Atlantic

May 09

513

5

The Swastika and the Cedar

Vanity Fair

May 09

34

5

Abraham Lincoln: MiseryÕs Child

Atlantic

July/Aug 09

532

2

What Happened to the Suicide Bombers of Jerusalem?

Slate

July 13, 2009

548

4

Once Upon A Time In Germany

Vanity Fair online

Aug 17, 2009

445

2

First, Silence the Whistle-Blower

Slate

Nov 2, 2009

397

5

Stieg Larsson: The Author Who Played With Fire

Vanity Fair

Dec 09

602

4

Arthur Koestler: The Zealot

Atlantic

Dec 09

124

6

In Defense of Foxhole Atheists

Vanity Fair online

Dec 15, 2009

353

4

J. G. Ballard: The Catastrophist

Atlantic

Jan/Feb 2010

736

2

The "Other" L-Word

Vanity Fair online

Jan 13, 2010

89

4

Vidal Loco

Vanity Fair

Feb 2010

556

2

North Korea: A Nation of Racist Dwarves

Slate

Feb 1, 2010

146

5

The Men Who Made England: Hilary MantelÕs "Wolf Hall"

Atlantic

March 2010

467

3

Long Live Democratic Seismology

Slate

Mar 1, 2010

414

8

The New Commandments

Vanity Fair

April 2010

566

2

Is the Euro Doomed?

Slate

Apr 26, 2010

175

4

The Dark Side of Dickens

Atlantic

May 2010

423

2

In Your Face                       (*pre-diagnosis)

Slate

May 10, 2010

429

2

Charles, Prince of Piffle       (*post-diagnosis)

Slate

June 14, 2010

563

2

Hugo Boss

Slate

Aug 2, 2010

131

5

In Search of the Washington Novel

City Journal

Autumn 2010

323

8

Loving Philip Larkin

Atlantic

May 2011

687

9

When the King Saved God

Vanity Fair

May 2011

474

5

From Abbottabad to Worse

Vanity Fair

July 2011

xv

4

Introduction to Arguably (written June 26, 2011)

Twelve

Sep 1, 2011

 


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