And Yet…Essays

Hitchens is one of the world's best-known essayists, with his provocative observations on religion and politics appearing in print and online magazines such as Vanity Fair, the Atlantic, and Slate before his death in 2011. Many of these essays have been published in the more voluminous Arguably (2011), which takes up over 700 pages and covers such large political and literary figures as Abraham Lincoln, Edmund Burke, and André Malraux, with whole sections devoted to sweeping topics such as Orientalism and totalitarianism. Fans of Hitchens's prose will appreciate the pieces provided here on topics and personalities that are absent in the larger volume, which supplies only his more essential writings. This collection includes additional reviews of notable contemporary works, including historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s posthumously published Journals: 1952–2000 and a critical review of Barack Obama's books in the Atlantic published soon after the 2008 election. Other subjects of Hitchens's analysis include criticism of Colin Powell's foreign policy and harsh criticism of Hillary Clinton's experience in an essay from Slate unambiguously titled "The Case Against Hillary Clinton."