6/3/2023 0 Comments Arguably essays![]() Though he has a soft spot for the English Reformation because it destroyed Catholic power, he dislikes all religions in an ascending intensity from Protestantism to Catholicism to Islam. This output is fueled (a word he detests) by consistent and unvarying opinions. ![]() He seems to be as widely read and traveled as he is prolific-the publicity sheet for the book notes that Arguably: Essays is his first collection since 2004, not counting the six other books he wrote or co-edited in the meantime. In their work, readers often find it difficult to discover just what book is being discussed because the reviewer subsumes the discussion in a wider consideration of the topic.Ĭhristopher Hitchens is preeminently in the second group. Not so reviewers given the space to show their credentials as public intellectuals. ![]() Here the reviewer is in a way subordinate to the book. Ordinary book reviewers have three tasks: to determine what the author set out to do how well that task was accomplished and whether it was worth undertaking. ![]()
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