How to write? With love, says the author.
Christopher Hitchens died seven years ago this Saturday, a decade after breaking ranks with onetime friend Gore Vidal and beginning a feud that symbolized major changes in left-wing politics
A Danish art exhibit attacks public figures who ‘insult’ but not those who issue death threats in response
Today on Tablet
After a lifelong curiosity about the prohibition against pork, one writer finds a satisfying answer—in the writings of the late Christopher Hitchens
The invented Seinfeld winter holiday Festivus, like the late Christopher Hitchens, demands a religion-like dogma around nonbelief
The key to Christopher Hitchens wasn’t his iconoclasm; it was his desire for belonging—and the proof can be found in an unexpected place
A few favorite essays
What it could mean for Israel
We are all—from Anthony Weiner to Chelsea Handler to the lazy guy who’d rather watch TV than read a book—afflicted by an epidemic of frivolity. But Moses, who faced it, too, has a cure.
David Mamet’s The Secret Knowledge, an assault on liberal values and politics, should be viewed not as a polemic but as a yet-to-be-written play about his usual subjects: scams and hustlers
Why the U.S. cut the freeze-extension deal
In his letters, Saul Bellow was thoughtful, eloquent, feisty—and quite possibly at his most Jewish
Hitchens and Ramadan debate the ‘religion of peace’
A rabbi and an atheist walk into a room …
Hitchens and Amis on English anti-Semitism
Though he won’t be joining you
