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Hitchens' Widow On Mourning And 'Mortality'

by NPR Staff

While undergoing treatment for esophageal cancer, Christopher Hitchens chronicled his experience of "living dyingly" in a series of essays for Vanity Fair. Those essays and other notes from the author's final days are compiled in the posthumous book Mortality, with an afterword by his wife, Carol Blue.

Christopher Hitchens with his wife, Carol Blue, during a trip to Romania in 1989.

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'1984' 60 Years Later

George Orwell's dystopian novel of the future, 1984, was published six decades ago. Many of the terms Orwell coined have passed into popular usage. Christopher Hitchens, author of Why Orwell Matters, explains the novel's continued significance.

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'Love, Poverty and War' with Christopher Hitchens

It's not easy to place author and polemicist Christopher Hitchens into a particular ideological camp. The man who accuses former Secretary of State Henry Kissenger of war crimes is himself considered a "hawk" to many on the left. Hitchens joins NPR's Tavis Smiley to discuss his latest book, Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays.

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