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3/31/08

'God Is Not Great' Author Hitchens To Speak At SLU

CANTON - Author, journalist and critic Christopher Hitchens will deliver the Kathryn Fraser Mackay '77 Memorial Lecture at St. Lawrence University on Thursday, April 10, at 8 p.m. in Eben Holden. The event, part of the Contemporary Issues Forum, is open to the public, free of charge.

Hitchens is one of the best known and most controversial writers and critics in the media. He is the author of many books, including God Is Not Great; Class and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies; Karl Marx and The Paris Commune; The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favorite Fetish; International Territory: The UN After Fifty Years; The Palestine Question; The Trial of Henry Kissinger; and A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq.

He has been a columnist for Vanity Fair, The Nation and Slate, the e-magazine, and is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times Book Review and Atlantic Monthly, among many other publications. As foreign correspondent and travel writer, Hitchens has written from more than 60 countries on all five continents and is the only writer to have written, since 2000, from Iran, Iraq and North Korea.

The Mackay Memorial Lecture was established in memory of Kathryn Fraser Mackay '77 by her family, to honor her interests and spirit. Traditionally, coordination of the lectures alternates between the departments of philosophy and religious studies.

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