The first new book of essays by Christopher Hitchens since 2004, offers an indispensable key to understanding the passionate and skeptical spirit of one of our most dazzling writers, widely admired for the clarity of his...The first new book of essays by Christopher Hitchens since 2004, offers an indispensable key to understanding the passionate and skeptical spirit of one of our most dazzling writers, widely admired for the clarity of his style, a result of his disciplined and candid thinking. Topics range from ruminations on why charles dickens was among the best of writers and the worst of men to the haunting science fiction of j.g.