{"product_id":"a-hitch-in-time-writings-from-the-london-review-of-books-9781838956004","title":"A Hitch in Time: Writings from the London Review of Books","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Hitch in Time: Writings from the London Review of Books\u003c\/strong\u003e by Hitchens, Christopher. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781838956004.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRevisiting this selection of diaries and essay-reviews from the London Review of Books is restorative, an extended spa treatment that stretches tired brains and unkinks the usual habitual responses where Hitchens is concerned. James Wolcott in his introduction\n\nChristopher Hitchens was a star writer wherever he wrote, and the same was true of the London Review of Books, to which he contributed sixty pieces over two decades. Anthologised here for the first time, this selection of his finest LRB reviews, diaries and essays (along with a smattering of ferocious letters) finds Hitchens at his very best.\n\nFamiliar bêtes noires - Kennedy, Nixon, Kissinger, Clinton - rub shoulders with lesser-known preoccupations: P.G. Wodehouse, Princess Margaret and, magisterially, Isaiah Berlin. Here is Hitchens on the (first) Gulf War and the Salman Rushdie Acid Test, on being spanked by Mrs Thatcher in the House of Lords and taking his son to the Oscars, on Americas homegrown Nazis and Acts of Violence in Grosvenor Square in 1968.\n\nEdited by the London Review of Books, with an introduction by James Wolcott, this collection recaptures, ten years after his death, a Hitch in time: barnstorming, cauterising, and ultimately uncontainable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44976893886517,"sku":"ByrdShop_183895600X","price":34.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781838956004_527c8c1e-f3a9-442c-bed0-b556ffae9b3b.jpg?v=1778634342","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-hitch-in-time-writings-from-the-london-review-of-books-9781838956004","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}