I was introduced to his writing at age 13 in 2001, when my grandpa sent me his just released book Letters to a Young Contrarian. With a note "He's brilliant, but dont call Mother Teresa "a fanatic ...

In his new book, Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens recommends the following daily exercise: Every day, the New York Times carries a motto in a box on its front page.

including “Letters to a Young Contrarian,” “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything,” and his memoir, “Hitch-22.” It would be nearly impossible to collect a truly ...

How did he respond to criticism? "The brief answer is that I have become inured without becoming indifferent," he wrote in "Letters to a Young Contrarian," a 2001 book. "I attack and criticize ...

For all the sad stories we read of how churlish anti-intellectualism rules the schoolyard and the do-gooders of the PTA, Basic Books offers America’s youth a bracing corrective with its new Art ...