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"America's most important rhetorical pugilist." (John Giuffo, The Village Voice) The loss of life of Christopher Hitchens in December 2011 prematurely silenced a tone of voice that was among the most admired of modern-day authors. For more than 40 years, Hitchens delivered to numerous publications on both sides of the Atlantic essays that were astonishingly far reaching and provocative. The judges for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Fine art of the Article posthumously bestowed on Hitchens praised him for the way he published "with fervor about the literature and authors he enjoyed and with unbridled venom about ideas and political numbers he loathed". He could write, the judges continued to state, with "undisguised brio, mining the resources of the language as if alert to every likelihood of color and inflection." He was, as Benjamin Schwarz, his editor at The Atlantic mag, recalled, "slashing and lively, biting and funny - and with a nuanced sensibility and a processed ear canal that he placed in tune with his encyclopedic knowledge and close to photographic memory of English poetry". And as Michael Dirda, writing in The Times Literary Product, witnessed, Hitchens "was a flail and a scourge, but also a surprise to readers everywhere". The author of five past volumes of specific writings, including the international best owner Probably, Hitchens still left at his loss of life practically 250,000 words of essays not yet released in booklet form. And Yet...assembles a selection that usefully increases Hitchens' oeuvre. It ranges from the literary to the political and is, by turns, a banquet of engaging and instructive delights, including essays on Orwell, Lermontov, Chesterton, Fleming, Naipaul, Rushdie, Pamuk, and Dickens, amongst others, as well as his laugh-out-loud self-mocking "makeover". The range and quality of Hitchens' essays transcend this occasions that they were originally written.
