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By Christopher Hitchens (Twelve, 2010)
I just finished Christopher Hitchens’s magnificent new memoir, Hitch-22. I hated his last book, the one about God — or, as he would have it, god. Well, fair enough. I always thought the big-G god thing was an unfortunate bit of deck-stacking. But it was a truly ill-informed book, one [...]
Continue Reading →About a year ago, I wrote a review of The Bishop’s Daughter, Honor Moore’s memoir of her father, the late Episcopal bishop of New York, Paul Moore. The review never ran, but the recent release of that book in paperback prompted me to return to the review, and I still think it [...]
Continue Reading →By Floyd Skloot (University of Nebraska Press, 2008)
At the age of forty-one, Floyd Skloot was stuck with static dementia, a virally induced brain disease. Unable to write, struggling to grasp simple sentences, not capable of remembering new facts, fitfully recalling old ones, he was in “neurological tatters.” Yet in a blessed [...]
Continue Reading →By Jeff VanderMeer (Tor Books, 2006)
Shriek: An Afterword is a book of books. In its setting and some elements of its plot, it is a work of fantasy about a surreal city called Ambergris. It is also a personal drama, as its literary narrative style mixes — sometimes sentence for sentence [...]
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