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The End of Hitchens in the Penny Press?
Reading last week’s TLS, it’s possible, just barely, to pretend things are perfectly normal. Professor Sudhir Hazareesingh’s review of Christopher Hitchens’ memoir Hitch-22 garnered a short,...
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Worst Nonfiction, 2010!
If cynicism was the underpinning animus of the Worst Fiction of 2010, it was the emblazoned fife and snare drum coronation anthem of the Worst Nonfiction. I’ve been reading books a long time now, and...
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Agreeing to Disagree in the Penny Press!
The linear procession that is my weekly plow through the latest furrow of the Penny Press couldn’t have started off worse this time around – not even with a ‘short’ story by Alice Munro: The New...
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Super-Exposure in the Penny Press!
Readers who might once have been irritated by the sight of a topless Rob Lowe on the cover of Vanity Fair (the top item in a strong Penny Press week) will, like all right-thinking individuals in the...
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Full and Proper Credit in the Penny Press!
It’s a bit unnerving, getting royally hacked off at Christopher Hitchens these days. The man’s health is fragile, after all, and it hardly feels sporting to get riled up at somebody in such a...
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The Folds of Irony in the Penny Press!
Oh, the multiplicitous ironies in the latest batch of the Penny Press I consumed at my little hole-in-the-wall periodical-reading restaurant! Everywhere I turned, it was inescapable! Take last week’s...
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Scurrilous Behavior in the Penny Press!
We’ve had a typically tumultuous year with the Penny Press in 2011, as you might expect. After all, the world of periodicals and the world of blogging share in common a certain element of headlong...
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Uppity primates in the Penny Press!
Jumping (somewhat belatedly) into the fray of 2012′s Penny Press, we find the party in full swing, which is always inviting. In the 6 January TLS, for instance, Mary Kenny writes a letter whose simple...
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Hatchet-Jobs indeed in the Penny Press!
Just when you thought the whole ‘negativity-in-book-reviews’ teacup-tempest had finally blown itself out, no less an unlikely Lady Bracknell than Clive James stirs it back up again. Himself a critic...
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Arguably!
Our book today is that fat tome from 2011, Arguably, a big bright collection of the deadline pieces and miscellaneous hackwork of the late Christopher Hitchens, who actually passed the most feared of...
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Best Books of 2015: Reprints!
We begin our 2015 Stevereads year-end festivities with a glance back at a healthy barometer of the book-world around us. That book-world is only as strong as its memory, so a very good gauge of the...
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