Perhaps he had this dictum in mind when he penned, on a challenge from his New School students, Letters to a Young Contrarian, condensing years' worth of his advice "to the young and the restless ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...