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The writer was made for our times far more than his own, having the misfortune to peak during one of history’s blander interludes
The writer’s wry, companionable late-style infuses this fictionalised memoir
We are missing a British writer to whom we can turn and learn from at moments of national consequence or crisis
The public intellectual remained true to himself in his final writings
It’s a dying art, struck down by text, email and messaging. So can we be taught how to talk to each other?
Sipping margaritas with Richard Dawkins on the sideline of a Sri Lanka literary fest, a glorious Albania book tour and the sequel to ‘Sashenka’
Much of the journalism profession is motivated by a desire to tell stories without concern for the people in them, but someone’s got to do it
Three days before Christmas and 12 days shy of the Iowa caucus, Republicans are still ‘shopping’ for a candidate, says John McDermott
From Iraq to religion, Christopher Hitchens defined areas of debate, writes John Lloyd
Christopher Hitchens’ fierce certainties make for fine polemic but they have often obscured reality
Running a country on eloquence alone hasn’t worked out disastrously for the UK’s ruling classes – or at least not yet
Why does a list of contemporary intellectuals look so feeble?
John Pilger showed what a journalist committed to a strongly held view of the world can do with the medium
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