{"product_id":"book-bso3","title":"And Yet...","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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\u003ci\u003e Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e Literary Supplement, observed, Hitchens “was a flail and a scourge, but also a gift to readers everywhere.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author of five previous volumes of selected writings, including the international bestseller \u003ci\u003eArguably\u003c\/i\u003e, Hitchens left at his death nearly 250,000 words of essays not yet published in book form. \u003ci\u003eAnd Yet… \u003c\/i\u003eassembles  a selection that usefully adds to Hitchens’ oeuvre. It ranges from the  literary to the political and is, by turns, a banquet of entertaining  and instructive delights, including essays on Orwell, Lermontov,  Chesterton, Fleming, Naipaul, Rushdie, Pamuk, and Dickens, among others,  as well as his laugh-out-loud self-mocking “makeover.” The range and  quality of Hitchens’ essays transcend the particular occasions for  which they were originally written. Often prescient, always pugnacious,  and formidably learned, Hitchens was a polemicist for the ages. With  this posthumous volume, his reputation and his readers will continue to  grow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher Hitchens was the cartographer of his own  literary and political explorations. He sought assiduously to affirm—and  to reaffirm—the ideas of secularism, reason, libertarianism,  internationalism, and solidarity, values always under siege and ever in  need of defending. Henry James once remarked, “Nothing is my last word  on anything.” For Hitchens, as for James, there was always more to be  said.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49347500212528,"sku":"BDbso3","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/293807-bso3-Square.jpg?v=1734206546","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bso3","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}