![]() ![]() Love, Poverty, and War was praised in Kirkus Reviews as "a well-turned collection with scarcely a false note", with the author's "fierce and nuanced patriotism in the wake of 9/11" singled out. As Colm Tóibín observes in his review, "the book is overshadowed by that day and by Hitchens's response to it." It was, in Hitchens's words, "a condensed day of love, poverty, and war, all right." Reception ![]() The "Love" section includes essays on some of Hitchens's favourite literary figures: Evelyn Waugh, James Joyce, Leon Trotsky and Rudyard Kipling "Poverty" includes critiques of the likes of Mother Teresa, Michael Moore, Mel Gibson and David Irving while "War" is divided into the sections "Before September" and "After September", the latter showing Hitchens' reaction to the September 11 attacks. ![]() The title of the book is explained in the introduction, which informs the reader that "an antique saying has it that a man's life is incomplete unless or until he has tasted love, poverty, and war." Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays is a collection of essays and reportage by the author, journalist, and literary critic Christopher Hitchens. ![]()
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