The Best Books of 2024
PopMatters Best Books of 2024 include a broad range of nonfiction, many books on music, short fiction, a novel that turns a Mark Twain classic inside out, and much more.
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Christopher Hitchens and Fights Worth Having
You can smell the cigarette ash and Johnnie Walker Black Label on the pages of A Hitch in Time, a gleefully pugilistic posthumous Christopher Hitchens anthology.
Martin Amis’ ‘Inside Story’ Is a Grimoire
Where things don't quite add up in autobiography Inside Story, Martin Amis fashions the untidy sum into a sort of punchline; where there aren't any punchlines, he makes the mess into a cosmic joke.
He’s Martin Amis…and We’re Not
The recent release of The Rub of Time once again marks Martin Amis amongst our most proficient critics, seemingly without peer in terms of his range and scope.
Christopher Hitchens Embraced and Devoured with Equal Passion
Christopher Hitchens’ interviews offer a tantalizing appetizer of the breadth, scope, and urgency of the legendary contrarian’s thoughts on culture and politics
An Artful Discussion About ‘The Art of Death’
Edwidge Danticat examines ways we leave the world as seen through her life and the narratives of other great writers.
Christopher Hitchens’ Posthumous Anthology, ‘And Yet…’, and Yet There Is More
Why reprint what's already available, as done here, if a bounty of miscellanea is still uncollected?
Antitheism and the Art of the “Hitch Slap”
Before Bill Maher became the demon-du-jour for his satirical scorn of religion, Christopher Hitchens led the charge of rhetorical antitheism.