And Yet Author:Christopher Hitchens The author of five previous volumes of selected writings, including the international bestseller, Arguably, Christopher Hitchens left at his death nearly 250,000 words of essays not yet published in book form. And Yet...assembles a selection which usefully adds to Hitchens's oeuvre. It ranges from the literary to the political and is, by turns, ... more »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's essays transcend the particular occasions for which they were originally written. Often prescient, always pugnacious, formidably learned, Hitchens was a polemicist for the ages. Henry James once remarked, "Nothing is my last word on anything," For Hitchens, as for James, there was always more to be said.« less