Book review: And Yet... Essays
The essays, articles and reviews here are previously uncollected (though not ‘unpublished’ as the jacket claims — an omission a living Hitchens would surely not have countenanced), perhaps because, alas, they’re not always among his best work.
A piece on GK Chesterton seems too fixated on Chesterton’s ideological sins to sufficiently admit his skills as a writer; an aside elsewhere on the phrase ‘more heat than light’, whether disingenuous or genuinely missing the point, seems uncharacteristically wrong-headed. Still, elsewhere the penetrating eye, powerful mind and excoriating wit are on typically fine form.
