For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Christopher Hitchens

From the September 1985 Issue

Triteness is All

Observations: Selected Speeches and Essays 1982-1984

By Henry Kissinger

From the August 1985 Issue

Special Reserve

Figure of Eight

By Patricia Cockburn

From the November 1983 Issue

Revenge is Sour

Eleni

By Nicholas Gage

From the April 1987 Issue

Self-Castrated Beaver

Castro

By Peter Bourne

From the June 1999 Issue

Despite Those Eyelashes, He Blew It

Some Times in America

By Alexander Chancellor

From the October 1996 Issue

No Cause to be Proud of our Victor’s Justice

Nuremberg: The Last Battle

By David Irving

From the July 1994 Issue

A Nation Insulted

The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination 1969-1993

By Edward W Said

From the July 1983 Issue

Something for Everybody

The Little Drummer Girl

By John Le Carré

From the May 1983 Issue

Chronicles of Revolution

Under the Skin: The Death of White Rhodesia

By David Caute

From the October 1983 Issue

Last, Best Hope

The Making of the Second Cold War

By Fred Halliday

From the December 1982 Issue

A Small World

Brief Lives

By Alan Watkins

From the February 1986 Issue

The Shock of Reality

Move Your Shadow: South Africa Black and White

By Joseph Lelyveld

From the December 1985 Issue

Girlish and Glutinous

The Joan Kennedy Story

By Marcia Chellis

Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe

By Anthony Summers

From the December 1984 Issue

The First Family

The Kennedys

By Peter Collier and David Horowitz

From the January 1985 Issue

Mother of Unions

The Oxford Union: Playground of Power

By David Walter

From the April 1985 Issue

The Craggy, Gruff Guy

The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two

By Studs Terkel

From the June 1984 Issue

Dead Men on Leave

Record of a Life

By George Lukács

From the July 1985 Issue

Three Theories

Breaking with Moscow

By Arkady Shevchenko

From the June 1988 Issue

Great Scot

Games with Shadows

By Neal Ascherson