Christopher Hitchens, a sharp-witted writer, critic and pundit, died Thursday at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston of pneumonia related to esophageal cancer. He was 62. Hitchens was an ...

Today in publishing and literature: Christopher Hitchens final memoir will be published simultaneously in the U.K. and U.S., a modest proposal to help authors make more money, and the "Jefferson Bible ...

Vanity Fair, where much of Hitchens’ work appeared, announced his passing late Thursday night on Twitter. He was 62 and suffering from esophageal cancer. Hitchens, born in Britain but more recently ...

NPR's Guy Raz doesn't often agree with British intellectual Christopher Hitchens. But he also has never read anything by Hitchens that doesn't... Perhaps it is to British writer and intellectual ...

Leaning back from the table, ever-present Rothman smoldering away, Christopher Hitchens turned from globalpolitik to what was really on his mind: why the nickname “Spanker” goes so well with most ...

Two days ago, the great public intellectual Christopher Hitchens passed away from pneumonia, after battling esophageal cancer for close to eighteen months. Many glowing obituaries have since been ...

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In his latest column for Slate, the ailing essayist Christopher Hitchens returns to a favorite target of his, Henry Kissinger, whom was recently found on newly released tapes from his days in the ...

Christopher Hitchens was an Atlantic contributing editor and a Vanity Fair columnist. For nearly a dozen years, Christopher Hitchens contributed an essay on books each month to The Atlantic. He was ...

One of America's most controversial public intellectuals died last night in a Houston hospital of pneumonia brought on by esophageal cancer. He was 62 years old. Christopher Hitchens was a ...

From time to time, I like to ask whether so-and-so is an alcoholic. It tends to complicate the definition of addiction if so-and-so was -- or continues to be -- a substantial drinker but is quite ...