Results for "Hitchens, Christopher"

“An extended spa treatment that stretches tired brains and unkinks the usual habitual responses where Hitchens is concerned.” —James Wolcott in his introduction  An outstanding new collection, A HITCH IN TIME is a must have for Hitchens completists and the perfect starting point for understandi... Read More about A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration

MI6’s man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start co... Read More about Our Man in Havana

Freud’s seminal volume of twentieth-century cultural thought grounded in psychoanalytic theory, now with a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens. Written in the decade before Freud’s death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. It has been praised, disse... Read More about Civilization and Its Discontents

“If you are a religious apologist invited to debate with Christopher Hitches, decline.” –Richard Dawkins  A stylish new paperback edition of GOD IS NOT GREAT, Hitchens’ devastating critique of religious faith—a #1 New York Times bestseller. With a close and studied reading of the majo... Read More about God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“Rebecca West’s magnum opus . . . one of the great books of our time.” —The New Yorker   Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West’s classic examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia illuminates a region that is still a focus of international concern. A magnificent... Read More about Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia

"The purser took the last landing-card in his hand and watched the passengers cross the wet quay, over a wilderness of rails and points, round the corners of abandoned trucks." As the Orient Express hurtles across Europe on its three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople, its voyage binds t... Read More about Orient Express: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)