HitchWatch: No Shy Bladder Edition

Christopher Hitchens does not get enough credit -- or admonishment, depending on your point of view -- for his book criticism. At least, not in the face of his nuanced (but disagreeable) political notions. But here's a look at his critical exploits (and yet another profile of him) at the New York Review of Magazines:

"Far removed from his appearances on The O'Reilly Factor and The New York Times best-seller list, far from his bile-infused political rants in Slate and his cultural ruminations in Vanity Fair, Hitchens' essays on books and authors hang together as a public intellectual's manifesto. In fact, liberal and conservative critics alike might better understand his high profile and his apparent break with the left if only they'd look to this, his least-heralded work."

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