Hitchens on Joan Didion

In a short, but rather poignant piece, Christopher Hitchens discusses the newest work of Joan Didion. An author who, having written of her husband's death in The Year of Magical Thinking, has now dedicated her latest work, Blue Nights, to exploring the even greater emotional blow that was to follow: the death of her daughter. "Nothing, according to the experts, compares to the clutching, choking nightmare that engulfs the one who is slowly bereft of a child," Hitchens writes. Read his full article.