Arguably: Selected Essays

A
LSO BY
C
HRISTOPHER
H
ITCHENS

BOOKS

Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger

Blood, Class and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies

Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles

Why Orwell Matters

No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton

Letters to a Young Contrarian

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

Thomas Jefferson: Author of America

Thomas Paine’s “Rights of Man”: A Biography

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

The Portable Atheist

Hitch-22: A Memoir

PAMPHLETS

Karl Marx and the Paris Commune

The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain’s Favorite Fetish

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq

ESSAYS

Prepared for the Worst: Essays and Minority Reports

For the Sake of Argument

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays

COLLABORATIONS

James Callaghan: The Road to Number Ten
(with Peter Kellner)

Blaming the Victims
(edited with Edward Said)

When the Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds
(photographs by Ed Kash)

International Territory: The United Nations
(photographs by Adam Bartos)

Vanity Fair’s Hollywood
(with Graydon Carter and David Friend)

Published simultaneously in the United States by Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing.

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LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION

Hitchens, Christopher
Arguably : essays by / Christopher Hitchens.

eISBN: 978-0-7710-4146-4

1. Essays–20th century. 2. Essays–21st century. I. Title.

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We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program and that of the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Media Development Corporation’s Ontario Book Initiative. We further acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program.

The author is grateful to the following publications in which the essays of this book originally appeared, sometimes in slightly different form:
The Atlantic, City Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Guardian
(London),
Newsweek, New Statesman, The New York Times Book Review, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Wilson Quarterly, Times Literary Supplement
, and
Vanity Fair
.

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