Lee Siegel is a contributing writer to Book Review and a contributing editor to Harper's and The New Republic Lionel Trilling once observed in his diaries that, to his genuine surprise, he was no ...

Through his Vanity Fair essays, his books and his television appearances, Christopher Hitchens has become one of our leading provocateurs, saying what many of us might be thinking (though he’s more ...

— "Christopher Hitchens was a complete one-off, an amazing mixture of writer, journalist, polemicist, and unique character.

Of all the criticisms that could be leveled at Christopher Hitchens – and there are many – a boring style is not one of them. Despite some controversial positions and persuasions, his writing was ...