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Christopher Hitchens, the polarizing and intellectually supple political columnist and cultural critic, died Thursday of pneumonia, a complication arising from esophageal cancer. He was 62.

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Christopher Hitchens, the author, writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor, has died, the magazine announced late Thursday. He was 62. Hitchens, who had been battling esophageal cancer since ...

Christopher Hitchens, as Goldblog readers undoubtedly know, has been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. I've been e-mailing a bit with him over the past couple of days, and he sounds like the same ...