Monday, August 26, 2002
Moral culpability?: Cathy Young pulls few punches in this op-ed piece on Martin Amis’ new book ''Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million.” But are all the punches fair? The punches she throws at Stalin and his legion of apologists are more than fair, needless to say. But what about her punches (as well as Amis') aimed at Christopher Hitchens? No admirer of Koba, Hitchens reviews (and gently defends himself) in this piece in Boston-based Atlantic Monthly. Hitchens is too esoteric at times, and he continues, or so it seems, to still view the old Left through romantic lenses. But Hitchens makes a good case that Amis is exhibiting all the signs of a recent convert.
