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Fortfarande rebell, Michail Gorbatjov, 82, talar om Putins Ryssland, sitt eftermäle och Raisa – hustrun han älskade och förlorade. Intervju…

De flesta har lite neandertalare i sig. I Svante Pääbos ”Jakten på våra uråldriga gener”, som snart kommer ut i…

The phrase “the year of living dyingly” occurs only once in Christopher Hitchens’s new memoir, Mortality, but it is strong…

Not surprisingly, this book about a ”year lived dyingly” is not Hitchens at his muscular best. It has other virtues,…

”What makes the book truly extraordinary is his profound oscillation between his characteristic, proud, almost stubborn self-awareness — that ability…

In life, he was a tub-thumping atheist, and much of his book is given over to ranting against God, prayers,…

Christopher Hitchens began his memoir, “Hitch-22,” on a note of grim amusement at finding himself described in a British National…

This last sad and oddly inspiring book, Christopher Hitchens’s own pieces are shaped like a fugue; the theme is death,…

Hitchens var en genuin grafoman som vid sidan sin vittgående journalistik, publicerade ett tjugotal böcker, däribland den extremt kontroversiella Du…

Peter Forbes on a biologist obsessed with the basis of life – and with himself.