The impulse to memorialize says as much about the survivors as the departed — and so the confessional frenzy of establishment journalists to mark the passing of Christopher Hitchens, who died of ...

Editor’s Note: The Hitchens Prize is awarded annually by the Dennis & Victoria Ross Foundation to an author or a journalist whose work, in the spirit of the late Christopher Hitchens, “reflects a ...

Carol Blue-Hitchens and her late husband’s literary agent are discouraging friends from participating in a book tentatively titled “Pamphleteer: The Life and Times of Christopher Hitchens.” By ...

British-born journalist Christopher Hitchens died December 15 at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, at the age of 62. His death has prompted an outpouring of praise and commentary in ...

Related: "The Last Word: Hitchens' widow on his life, his work, and his death" and "The Unpublished Jottings of Hitchens" Christopher Hitchens and Carol Blue on Boxing Day in 1989 during the Romanian ...

(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 esophageal ...

Future generations are very unlikely to credit Christopher Hitchens with saving the Left. Nor is he likely to be remembered as a great essayist like his long-time hero George Orwell, or even H.L.

“In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath,” Samuel Johnson remarked. Even so, claims that the world has lost a major thinker and great writer in the late Christopher Hitchens go beyond the mild ...

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 earn an ...

Excerpted from "The Science Delusion: Asking the Big Questions in a a Culture of Easy Answers" While a scientist like Richard Dawkins might be forgiven for not having his philosophic/aesthetic house ...