Clever, incisive ... Unhitched offers a more thorough and in-depth discrediting of Hitchens than anything previously published. And in doing so, Seymour has made an important contribution to understanding the political role of the intellectual celebrity in our time.
In These Times
Richard Seymour's Unhitched, a slim and scathing denunciation of turncoat scoundrel Christopher Hitchens, is a thoroughly ... Read moresatisfying and politically important book by one of the few remaining great radical left journalists.
Jordy Cummings
Rabble
Seymour reveals Hitchens as having had a lifelong admiration both for the United States and for empires as civilizing forces.
Washington Post Book World
Richard Seymour employs a unique technique to shred Hitchens's political philosophy to pieces: Seymour puts the late writer on trial.
The Christian Science Monitor
Well-argued ... I think Seymour rather pitied Hitchens, as the married man pities the philanderer.
Keith Miller
Daily Telegraph
He is not worthy of changing Christopher Hitchens's printer cartridge.
Stephen Robinson
The Times
A nasty piece of work ... (Full disclosure: Hitchens was a friend, mentor, and neighbor of mine.)
James Kirchick
Newsweek
Seymour's book offers an exciting counterbalance to the often uncritical praise that has flowed heavily since Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in June 2010.
Truthdig
Seymour is certainly master of the records; he knows the work closely and cites it scrupulously. But his headlong, foam-flecked interpretation, voiced in a manner recklessly close to Hitchens's own but without the grace, the wit, the tearing high spirits and the faultless ear for the fall of a cadence of his great original, becomes merely tedious, repetitive and unconvincing ... This little book is 134 pages long. The author shouldn't have done it. It is paltry and it is trivially abusive. Its subject was as eloquent, cultivated, exuberant, unstoppable, sheerly gigantic a journalist as British or American politics has known since George Orwell.
Fred Inglis
Independent
Caustic demolition of Hitchens-not dissimilar to Hitch's way with Mother Teresa or the Clintons.
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