Berfrois

Christopher Hitchens

Grief Turns Out

What matters for Hitchens is the world-transforming revolutionary impulse that animated both experiments…

Amis on Hitchens

Amis on Hitchens

“Drink, damn you! What else are you good for?”

Video:

Christopher Hitchens on Mortality

Hitchoxicated

Book excerpt:

‘Hitch 22: A Memoir’ by Christopher Hitchens

Nafeez Ahmed: ‘…it is Hitchens who has become after 9/11 an unhinged and deranged cheerleader for Total War.’

(Read Gore Vidal’s interview with Johann Hari)

Lions led by donkeys along a ‘learning curve’ of carnage

‘Retablo for Galileo, measuring Dante’s Hell’ and ‘Retablo for a parabola’ by Michelle Penn
Poems: ‘Retablo for Galileo, measuring Dante’s Hell’ and ‘Retablo for a parabola’ by Michelle Penn
‘Triumphs and Laments’ and ‘Roar’ by Daniel Tobin
Poems: ‘Triumphs and Laments’ and ‘Roar’ by Daniel Tobin
‘The Gentrification Plot’ by Thomas Heise
Book excerpt: ‘The Gentrification Plot’ by Thomas Heise
The Great Waves
Video: The Great Waves
‘Tonsure’ by Kevin Young
Poem: ‘Tonsure’ by Kevin Young
Portuguese Bookshops
Image gallery: Portuguese Bookshops