Cultural Capital: Christopher Hitchens

This week's magazine features an acerbic review of Christopher Hitchens's memoirs by his one-time comrade Terry Eagleton.

Readers unfamiliar with the iconoclastic journalist might find the piece a little harsh -- so this week's Words in Pictures clip features the "Oedipal child of the establishment" himself, as Eagleton puts it, in typically provocative mode:

The video relates to a piece that Hitchens ... read more

For anyone interested in faith, politics, postwar British culture or -- a bit more specialist -- the Hitchens brothers, there is something of a feast available in the papers at present.

In the red corner, Christopher Hitchens -- the hard-drinking "anti-theist" who wrote God is Not Great -- is serialising his memoirs in the Sunday Times. In the blue corner, Peter Hitchens -- the sober, right-wing Anglican who ... read more