Hitchens is a great writer on a wealth of topics. I love him so so much and I want him to be my boyfriend, and we could go to Vanity Fair parties together. The only criticism is that I have already read so many of these pieces. Not just obvious articles, but things like the intro to Brave New World? I think it should be illegal to write an introduction to someone else’s book and then publish that yourself in a collection. That is okay only when you are dead and the essay is out of print anywhere else.