(CBS/AP) Christopher Hitchens, a Washington, D.C.-based author, essayist and polemicist, died Thursday night at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston of pneumonia, a complication of his ...

Christopher Hitchens, a Washington, D.C.-based author, essayist and polemicist who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right, died Thursday night at M.D ...

Christopher Hitchens is dead and it’s a loss. As a believer in both God and religion, it may come as a surprise to some that I mourn the loss of a man who not only wrote a book called "God Is ...

Christopher Hitchens, the author and essayist who died on Thursday, was known for his assertive atheism. From scathing books about Mother Teresa and God, to the way his final days played out as a ...

Christopher Hitchens, the engaging and enraging British-American author and essayist whose polemical writings on religion, politics, war and other provocations established him as one of his ...

Christopher Hitchens, a sharp-witted provocateur who used his formidable learning, biting wit and muscular prose style to skewer what he considered high-placed hypocrites, craven lackeys of the ...

Hitchens’s Greatest Fear. From challenging Mother Teresa’s faith to calling Bill Clinton a rapist, nothing was off-limits for Christopher Hitchens. Earlier this year, 60 Minutes chronicled 61 ...

Mortality, the final book by Christopher Hitchens, the Anglo-American essayist, reporter, devout atheist and all-around intellectual troublemaker, won't be shelved in the travel section.. But in a ...

Here is how I came to hate Christopher Hitchens. Hate—as in envy. In the early 1980s, as a twentysomething trying to start a career as a crusading journalist, I was fortunate enough to share an ...

This bracing anthology of Christopher Hitchens’s work for The London Review of Books is just the ticket. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we ...