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 early ...

The death of Christopher Hitchens last night, from complications from esophageal cancer at age 62, ended one of the great intellectual careers of the last 40 years. A prolific author and debater, ...

WASHINGTON — Christopher Hitchens, the author, essayist and polemicist who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right and wrote the provocative best-seller "God is ...

I woke up this morning to a text message from my father: “Christopher Hitchens died.” The writer and public intellectual died on Dec. 15 at the age of 62 from esophageal cancer. Hitchens was ...

Christopher Hitchens had a tongue so sharp, you’d bleed out before you knew you were wounded. The famous atheist, who regarded faith as “the surrender of the mind,” mastered the cutting witticism, ...

Christopher Hitchens is an Anglo-American author, journalist, commentator, critic, contrarian and provocateur. He is considered one of the most influential writers of politics, literature, and popular ...

Whiskey, one of Christopher Hitchens' favorite vices. I have to quibble with Pollitt about Dave Zirin’s account of being spat upon by Hitchens. It’s not a fanboy’s attempt to romanticize Hitchens’ ...

“It is not possible for long,” Christopher Hitchens writes in his memoir, Hitch-22, “to be just a little heretical.” And no polemicist delights in his heresies as much as Hitchens does. Of his early ...

Of all the eulogies and essays about Christopher Hitchens that have appeared following his death Dec. 15 at age 62, one is particularly pernicious. “The Trouble With Hitchens,” by Benjamin Kerstein, ...