And yet essays Hitchens, Christopher

By:

Hitchens, Christopher

Publication details: Atlantic Books 2016 LondonDescription: vi, 339 pISBN:

9781782394587

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DDC classification:

814.54 H4A6

Summary: The death of Christopher Hitchens in December 2011 prematurely silenced a voice that was among the most admired of contemporary writers. For more than forty years, Hitchens delivered to numerous publications on both sides of the Atlantic essays that were astonishingly wide-ranging and provocative. The judges for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, posthumously bestowed on Hitchens, praised him for the way he wrote “with fervor about the books and writers he loved and with unbridled venom about ideas and political figures he loathed.” He could write, the judges went on to say, with “undisguised brio, mining the resources of the language as if alert to every possibility of color and inflection.” He was, as Benjamin Schwarz, his editor at The Atlantic magazine, recalled, “slashing and lively, biting and funny—and with a nuanced sensibility and a refined ear that he kept in tune with his encyclopedic knowledge and near photographic memory of English poetry.” And as Michael Dirda, writing in the Times Literary Supplement, observed, Hitchens “was a flail and a scourge, but also a gift to readers everywhere.” https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25111068-and-yet?from_search=true

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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Table of Contents:

1 Che Guevara : goodbye to all that
2 Orwell's list
3 Orhan Pamuk : mind the gap
4 Bring on the mud
5 Ohio's odd numbers
6 On becoming American
7 Mikhail Lermontov : a doomed young man
8 Salman Rushdie : Hobbes in the Himalayas
9 My Red-state odyssey
10 The turkey has landed
11 Bah, humbug
12 A.N. Wilson : downhill all the way
13 Ian Fleming : bottoms up
14 Power suits
15 Blood for no oil?
16 How uninviting
17 Look who's cutting and running now
18 Oriana Fallaci and the art of the interview
19 Imperial follies
20 Clive James : the omnivore
21 Gertrude Bell : the woman who made Iraq
22 Physician, heal thyself
23 Edmund Wilson : literary companion
24 On the limits of self-improvement, part I : of vice and men
25 On the limits of self-improvement, part II : vice and versa
26 On the limits of self-improvement, part III : mission accomplished
27 Ayaan Hirsi Ali : the price of freedom
28 Arthur Schlesinger : the courtier
29 Paul Scott : Victoria's secret
30 The case against Hillary Clinton
31 The tall tale of Tuzla
32 V.S. Naipaul : cruel and unusual
33 No regrets
34 Barack Obama : cool cat
35 The lovely stones
36 Edward M. Kennedy : redemption song
37 Engaging with Iran is like having sex with someone who hates you
38 Colin Powell : Powell valediction
39 Shut up about Armenians or we'll hurt them again
40 Hezbollah's progress
41 The politicians we deserve
42 Rosa Luxemburg : Red Rosa
43 Joan Didion : "Blue nights"
44 The true spirit of Christmas
45 Charles dickens's inner child
46 G.K. Chesterton : the reactionary
47 The importance of being Orwell
48 What is patriotism?

The death of Christopher Hitchens in December 2011 prematurely silenced a voice that was among the most admired of contemporary writers. For more than forty years, Hitchens delivered to numerous publications on both sides of the Atlantic essays that were astonishingly wide-ranging and provocative. The judges for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, posthumously bestowed on Hitchens, praised him for the way he wrote “with fervor about the books and writers he loved and with unbridled venom about ideas and political figures he loathed.” He could write, the judges went on to say, with “undisguised brio, mining the resources of the language as if alert to every possibility of color and inflection.” He was, as Benjamin Schwarz, his editor at The Atlantic magazine, recalled, “slashing and lively, biting and funny—and with a nuanced sensibility and a refined ear that he kept in tune with his encyclopedic knowledge and near photographic memory of English poetry.” And as Michael Dirda, writing in the Times Literary Supplement, observed, Hitchens “was a flail and a scourge, but also a gift to readers everywhere.”

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25111068-and-yet?from_search=true

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