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Your New Year's social media cleanse: Reread contrarian legend Christopher Hitchens
LA Times via Yahoo News· 5 months agoTwelve years after Christopher Hitchens' death, a new collection of the legendary contrarian's essays feels like an antidote to our 2024 attention deficit.
Martin Amis, literary ‘enfant terrible’, dies aged 73
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMartin Amis, the “literary agitator” behind acclaimed novels including London Fields, Money and The...
Opinion: A cerebral rock star is dead
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn a tribute to his literary hero, John Avlon calls Martin Amis, who died last week, “an impossibly cool and erudite observer,” who “chronicled...
The moment Matthew Perry tore into ‘complete tool’ Peter Hitchens during Newsnight debate about drug...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 7 months agoMatthew Perry, who has died suddenly aged 54, was known around the world as Chandler Bing, the...
Henry Kissinger, US diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies aged 100
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 months agoMr Kissinger, pictured in 2011, served under two US presidents - DAVID HOWELLS Henry Kissinger, the...
They Were Extremely Prepared for Henry Kissinger to Die
Slate via Yahoo News· 6 months agoWhen Henry Kissinger died Wednesday night at the age of 100, the overriding feeling on a large swath...
Salman Rushdie ‘stabbed in neck’ on stage at New York event
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAuthor Salman Rushdie, who was once the subject of a fatwa for his writing, was stabbed in the neck...
Martin Amis, British novelist, dies at 73
Entertainment Weekly via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe author was best known for his books Money: A Suicide Note, London Fields, and The Information, and his novels also served as inspiration for several...
Henry Kissinger, former secretary of state who shaped decades of U.S. policy, dies at 100
NBC News via Yahoo News· 6 months agoHenry Kissinger, the toweringly influential former secretary of state who earned a reputation as a...
Victor Navasky, journalist and historian, dies at 90
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNEW YORK — Victor Navasky, an award-winning author and journalist who for years presided over the liberal weekly The Nation and wrote influential books on the anti-Communist blacklist and Robert ...
