<p><u><b>A <i>Sunday Times</i> bestseller</b><br></u><br>Christopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the <i>New Statesman</i>, <i>Atlantic Monthly</i>, <i>London Review of Books</i>, <i>TLS </i>and <i>Vanity Fair</i>. Any publication of a volume of Hitchens'' essays was a major event on both sides of the Atlantic. Now comes a volume of Hitchens'' previously uncollected essays, covering the themes that define Hitchens the thinker: literature, religion and politics. These essays remind us, once more, of the fierce, brilliant and trenchant voice of Christopher Hitchens.</p>