And Yet...

<b>Christopher Hitchens</b> (1949-2011) was a contributing editor to <i>Vanity Fair</i> and a columnist for <i>Slate</i>. He was the author of numerous books including works on Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine George Orwell Mother Teresa Henry Kissinger and Bill and Hillary Clinton as well as his international bestseller and National Book Award nominee <i>god Is Not Great</i>. His memoir <i>Hitch-22</i> which was a <i>Sunday Times</i> bestseller was nominated for the Orwell Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His last book <i>Mortality</i> was published in 2012 by Atlantic Books. <u><b>A <i>Sunday Times</i> bestseller</b></u><br><u></u><br>Christopher Hitchens was an unparalleled prolific writer who raised the polemical essay to a new art form over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the <i>New Statesman</i> <i>Atlantic Monthly</i> <i>London Review of Books</i> <i>TLS </i>and <i>Vanity Fair</i>. Any publication of a volume of Hitchens' essays was a major event on both sides of the Atlantic. Now comes a volume of Hitchens' previously uncollected essays covering the themes that define Hitchens the thinker: literature religion and politics. These essays remind us once more of the fierce brilliant and trenchant voice of Christopher Hitchens. <b>Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitchens' most wry and provocative works. </b> The range is remarkable... Literary criticism is often where he shines - the pieces on Orwell and Chesterton in particular are alert nuanced and witty. And yet... there are few journalists who can match the verve and panache of Hitchens's prose. He mixes the loquaciousness of the barfly with the fluency of the literary artist and could not pen a dull sentence if he tried. What you will find in <i>And Yet...</i><i> </i>is a body of work that offers some of the most various nutritious and amusing prose you are likely to encounter and that stands as a testament to the consolations of a phrase he cherished: <i>litera scripta manet </i>- the written word remains. This final collection displays his startling ability to write so well about so much... The sense of loss at the subjects he will not write about is more than outweighed by the pleasure at those that he did. The range is remarkable... Literary criticism is often where he shines - the pieces on Orwell and Chesterton in particular are alert nuanced and witty. And yet... there are few journalists who can match the verve and panache of Hitchens's prose. He mixes the loquaciousness of the barfly with the fluency of the literary artist and could not pen a dull sentence if he tried. What you will find in <i>And Yet...</i><i> </i>is a body of work that offers some of the most various nutritious and amusing prose you are likely to encounter and that stands as a testament to the consolations of a phrase he cherished: <i>litera scripta manet </i>- the written word remains. This final collection displays his startling ability to write so well about so much... The sense of loss at the subjects he will not write about is more than outweighed by the pleasure at those that he did.