Journalist Matt Johnson drew criticism on the left when he wrote a book passionately defending the late British author ...

Hitchens, a columnist for the Nation and Vanity Fair, and author, most recently, of The Trial of Henry Kissinger, has made a career of disagreement and dissent, of being the thorn in search of a side.

The last time I saw Christopher Hitchens was on a sunny summer day on Irving Place. I had just had Christopher Hitchens, as he once was. “Gallagher,” (he always addressed me by my surname) “You’re ...

At the April 20th memorial service for Vanity Fair contributing editor Christopher Hitchens, author and Hitchens intimate Martin Amis delivered the eulogy. and I used to call him, my dear Hitch. The ...

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 ...

Through his Vanity Fair essays, his books and his television appearances, Christopher Hitchens has become one of our leading provocateurs, saying what many of us might be thinking (though he’s more ...

What emerges is a picture of Hitchens as an intellectually lazy poseur and a huffy racist—a man who, despite the remarkable breadth of his reading, “often lacked depth” and was “either unable or ...

For all that literature is an art of self-exposure, writers tend to back away from impending death. The shelf of firsthand looks at what Janet Hobhouse called “this dying business” is a short one — ...

The British-born journalist, essayist, commentator and agent provocateur Christopher Hitchens turned righteous indignation into an elite art form. And when he died from cancer in 2011, after ...

When a voice as distinct, direct and pugnaciously poetic as that of Christopher Hitchens is lost, the silence can be deafening. Especially in an election year. And Yet... fills the Hitchens void — for ...

While undergoing treatment for esophageal cancer, Christopher Hitchens chronicled his experience of "living dyingly" in a series of essays for... Hitchens' Widow On Mourning And 'Mortality' For 18 ...

Detain or subpoena the pope for questioning in the child-rape scandal? You must be joking! All right then, try the only alternative formulation: declare the pope to be above and beyond all local and ...