Author: Richard Carter

by Christopher Hitchens A memoir. The late Christopher Hitchens' memoir mainly comprises the memories of a hard-working, hard-thinking, hard-drinking journalist. There is a lot of politics in this book. But there is also plenty of humour, especially when Hitchens is laying into hypocrisy. But keep a dictionary to hand for looking up the occasional difficult… Continue reading Hitch 22

by J.R.R. Tolkien Tolkien's longest unfinished tale (now finished). Having been a huge Tolkien fan in my youth, I decided to give the newly published Children of Húrin a try, being already familiar with the story from an incomplete version that had previously been published in Tolkien's Unfinished Tales. This new version has been made… Continue reading The Children of Húrin

by Christopher Hitchens Essays on literature, politics, and religion. Arguably is a fantastic collection of articles by the late Christopher Hitchens, taken from many of the publications he wrote for over the years. The essays are elegant, outspoken, irreverent, and often very funny. I read Arguably on the Kindle. This turned out to be a… Continue reading Arguably