The first new collection of essays by Christopher Hitchens since 2004, ARGUABLY 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. Ballard; from the enduring legacies of Thomas Jefferson and George Orwell to the persistent agonies of anti-Semitism and jihad. Hitchens even looks at the recent financial crisis and argues for arthe enduring relevance of Karl Marx. The audio book forms a bridge between the two parallel enterprises of culture and politics. It reveals how politics justifies itself by culture, and how the latter prompts the former. In this fashion, ARGUABLY burnishes Christopher Hitchens’ credentials as-to quote Christopher Buckley-our “greatest living essayist in the English language.”
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Agruably, Essays by Christopher Hitchens
My only disappointment is that this collection of essays is not read by Hitchens himself. Simon Prebble is fine as a narrator though. I find Hitchens to have been one of the most stimulating authors I've ever read or listened to in that he says what he thinks with no apologies (plenty of authors claim that, but Hitchens is the real deal). The essays range on a variety of topics but if you're like me, I find it relaxing to go from martyrs to Jefferson to Dickens to Orwell, etc. Someone talking to me about subjects of interest on history, politics and opinions which I may have never even thought about. At 28 hours this is a good buy. I've been using "Arguably" to keep my mind entertained while doing grunt work on an animation project and Hitchens helps pass the time more enjoyably. Recommended.
