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Arguably: Essays is a 2011 book by Christopher Hitchens, comprising 107 essays on a variety of political and cultural topics. [1]

87 relations: Alfred Appel, Alistair Horne, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963, Andrew Roberts (historian), Animal Farm, Anthony Thwaite, Atlantic Books, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Bouvard et Pécuchet, Christopher Hitchens, Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War, City Journal (New York City), David S. Reynolds, Edmund Burke, Edward Said, Farrukh Dhondy, For Lust of Knowing, Foreign Affairs, Foreword, Francis Wheen, Fred Kaplan (biographer), George Orwell, Graham Greene, Gustave Flaubert, Hachette Book Group, Hardcover, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Hilary Mantel, Human Smoke, Ian Kershaw, Isabel Allende, J. K. Rowling, James Ledbetter, Jeffrey Meyers, John Gray (philosopher), John Sutherland (author), John Updike, Kirkus Reviews, Koba the Dread, Lolita, Martin Amis, Matthew Scully, Michael Burlingame (historian), Michael Oren, Michael Scammell, New Statesman, Newsweek, Nicholson Baker, Norman Sherry, On the Natural History of Destruction, ..., Orientalism (book), Our Man in Havana, Pat Buchanan, PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, Peter Martin (professor), Philip Larkin, Power, Faith and Fantasy, Rebecca West, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Robert Dallek, Robert Irwin (writer), Robert McCrum, Saul Bellow, Slate (magazine), The Atlantic, The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, The Daily Telegraph, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, The House of the Spirits, The Independent, The Jungle, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Observer, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Times Literary Supplement, The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Wilson Quarterly, Upton Sinclair, Vanity Fair (magazine), Victor Klemperer, Victor Serge, Vladimir Nabokov, W. G. Sebald, Wolf Hall. Expand index (37 more) »

Alfred Appel

Alfred Appel Jr. (January 31, 1934 – May 2, 2009) was a scholar noted for his investigations into the works of Vladimir Nabokov, modern art, and Jazz modernism.

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Alistair Horne

Sir Alistair Allan Horne (9 November 1925 – 25 May 2017) was a British journalist, biographer and historian of Europe, especially of 19th and 20th century France.

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An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963

An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963 is a biography of the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy (JFK), who was assassinated in 1963.

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Andrew Roberts (historian)

Andrew Roberts (born 13 January 1963) is a British historian and journalist.

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Animal Farm

Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945.

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Anthony Thwaite

Anthony Thwaite is an English poet and critic, now widely known as the editor of his friend Philip Larkin's collected poems and letters.

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Atlantic Books

Atlantic Books is an independent British publishing house, with its headquarters in the Ormond House in Bloomsbury, London Borough of Camden.

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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia is a travel book written by Dame Rebecca West, published in 1941 in two volumes by Macmillan in the UK and by The Viking Press in the US.

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Bouvard et Pécuchet

Bouvard et Pécuchet is an unfinished satirical work by Gustave Flaubert, published in 1881 after his death in 1880.

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Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an Anglo-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, religious and literary critic, social critic, and journalist.

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Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War

Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, is a book by Patrick J. Buchanan, published in May 2008.

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City Journal (New York City)

City Journal is a quarterly magazine published by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a conservative think tank based in New York City.

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David S. Reynolds

David S. Reynolds (born 1948) is an American literary critic, biographer, and historian noted for his writings on American literature and culture.

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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (12 January 17309 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, who after moving to London in 1750 served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons with the Whig Party.

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Edward Said

Edward Wadie Said (إدوارد وديع سعيد,; 1 November 1935 – 25 September 2003) was a professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.

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Farrukh Dhondy

Farrukh Dhondy (born Poona, India, in 1944) is an Indian-born British writer, playwright, screenwriter and left-wing activist of Parsi descent, who resides in the United Kingdom.

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For Lust of Knowing

For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their Enemies, published in the United States under the title Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents, is a 2006 non-fiction book by British historian Robert Irwin.

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Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.

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Foreword

A foreword is a (usually short) piece of writing sometimes placed at the beginning of a book or other piece of literature.

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Francis Wheen

Francis James Baird Wheen (born 22 January 1957) is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster.

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Fred Kaplan (biographer)

Fred Kaplan (born 1937) is distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

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Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991), better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

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Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert (12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist.

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Hachette Book Group

Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a publishing company owned by Hachette Livre, the largest publishing company in France, and the third largest trade and educational publisher in the world.

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Hardcover

A hardcover or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as case-bound) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of Binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a fantasy book written by British author J. K. Rowling and the seventh and final novel of the Harry Potter series.

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Hilary Mantel

Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, (née Thompson; born 6 July 1952) is an English writer whose work includes personal memoirs, short stories, and historical fiction.

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Human Smoke

Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization is a 2008 book by Nicholson Baker about World War II.

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Ian Kershaw

Sir Ian Kershaw, FBA (born 29 April 1943) is an English historian and author whose work has chiefly focused on the social history of 20th-century Germany.

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Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende (born August 2, 1942) is a Chilean writer.

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J. K. Rowling

Joanne Rowling, ("rolling";Rowling, J.K. (16 February 2007).. Accio Quote (accio-quote.org). Retrieved 28 April 2008. born 31 July 1965), writing under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, philanthropist, film and television producer and screenwriter best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series.

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James Ledbetter

For the Welsh rugby union player of a similar name see James Leadbeater James Ledbetter is an author and editor based in New York City.

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Jeffrey Meyers

Jeffrey Meyers (born April 1, 1939 in New York City) is an American biographer, literary, art and film critic.

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John Gray (philosopher)

John Nicholas Gray (born 17 April 1948) is an English political philosopher with interests in analytic philosophy and the history of ideas.

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John Sutherland (author)

John Andrew Sutherland (born 9 October 1938) is a British academic, newspaper columnist and author.

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John Updike

John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.

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Kirkus Reviews

Kirkus Reviews (or Kirkus Media) is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus (1893–1980).

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Koba the Dread

Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million is a 2002 non-fiction book by British writer Martin Amis.

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Lolita

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian American novelist Vladimir Nabokov.

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Martin Amis

Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist, essayist and memoirist.

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Matthew Scully

Matthew Scully (born March 30, 1959) is an American author, journalist, and speechwriter.

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Michael Burlingame (historian)

Michael Burlingame is an American historian, noted for his works on Abraham Lincoln.

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Michael Oren

Michael Bornstein Oren (Hebrew: מיכאל אורן; born Michael Scott Bornstein; May 20, 1955) is an American-born Israeli historian, author, politician, former ambassador to the United States (2009–2013), and current member of the Knesset for the Kulanu party and Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Office.

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Michael Scammell

Michael Scammell (born 1935) is an English author, biographer and translator of Slavic literature.

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New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published in London.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly magazine founded in 1933.

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Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is an American novelist and essayist.

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Norman Sherry

Norman Sherry FRSL (6 July 1925 – 19 October 2016) was an English born American novelist, biographer, and educator who was most well known for his three-volume biography of the British novelist Graham Greene.

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On the Natural History of Destruction

On the Natural History of Destruction is a 1999 book by the German writer W. G. Sebald.

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Orientalism (book)

Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward W. Said, in which the author discusses Orientalism, defined as the West's patronizing representations of "The East"—the societies and peoples who inhabit the places of Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East.

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Our Man in Havana

Our Man In Havana (1958) is a novel set in Cuba by the British author Graham Greene.

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Pat Buchanan

Patrick Joseph Buchanan (born November 2, 1938) is an American paleoconservative political commentator, author, syndicated columnist, politician, and broadcaster.

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PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay is awarded by the PEN American Center to an author for a book of original collected essays.

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Peter Martin (professor)

Peter Martin (born 1940) is an American scholar of English literature.

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Philip Larkin

Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and librarian.

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Power, Faith and Fantasy

Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present, a history of American involvement in the Middle East by Michael Oren, was published by W.W. Norton & Co.

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Rebecca West

Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield DBE (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer.

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Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France is a political pamphlet written by the Irish statesman Edmund Burke and published in November 1790.

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Robert Dallek

Robert A. Dallek (born May 16, 1934) is an American historian specializing in the Presidents of the United States.

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Robert Irwin (writer)

Robert Graham Irwin (born 23 August 1946) is a British historian, novelist, and writer on Arabic literature.

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Robert McCrum

John Robert McCrum (born 7 July 1953), is an English writer and editor.

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Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-American writer.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States from a liberal perspective.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard

The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard is a short-story collection by J. G. Ballard, published in 2009 by W. W. Norton & Company.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The House of the Spirits

The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) is the debut novel of Isabel Allende.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Jungle

The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968).

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New York Times Book Review

The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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The Times Literary Supplement

The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS, on the front page from 1969) is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Weekly Standard

The Weekly Standard is an American conservative opinion magazine published 48 times per year.

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The Wilson Quarterly

The Wilson Quarterly is a magazine published by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. The magazine was founded in 1976 by Peter Braestrup and James H. Billington.

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Upton Sinclair

Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres.

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Vanity Fair (magazine)

Vanity Fair is a magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.

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Victor Klemperer

Victor Klemperer (9 October 188111 February 1960) was a Romance languages scholar who also became known as a diarist.

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Victor Serge

Victor Serge, born Victor Lvovich Kibalchich (Ви́ктор Льво́вич Киба́льчич; December 30, 1890 – November 17, 1947), was a Russian revolutionary and writer.

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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator and entomologist.

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W. G. Sebald

Winfried Georg Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as W. G. Sebald or Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic.

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Wolf Hall

Wolf Hall (2009) is a historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour family seat of Wolfhall or Wulfhall in Wiltshire.

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