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Sun - Dec 26 -

A HITCHINS-FEST:

*Hitchens is one of those people who surely emerged from the womb offering a salvo of critical judgments, possibly while smoking a cigarette: Do those lights have to be that bright? Can I see your medical credentials? Who ordered the epidural?...

There are warm, acute readings of Aldous Huxley, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Kingsley Amis and Saul Bellow -- several of them introductions written for specific novels...

...to re-title Shakespeare plays as if they had been written by Robert Ludlum... came up with The Elsinore Vacillation, The Dunsinane Reforestation, The Kerchief Implication, and The Rialto Sanction.*


:: Excerpts - book review of Hitchins' Latest ::
-- By Mark Kingwell at the G and M --

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