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 ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) Christopher Hitchens will be remembered as many things: an acerbic essayist, connoisseur of Scotch and cigarettes and roguish writer whose forceful pen was fueled by an imposing ...

The strengths of a good slim compendium have usually included more than just their portability. The twist that makes Melville House’s The Last Interview series is one that also makes it somewhat ...

Nuance is the mortal enemy of essayist Christopher Hitchens. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...

As one might expect, Christopher Hitchens’ Mortality pulls no punches; one is immediately taken to the scene, and the renowned writer details his horror upon awakening in a New York hotel: “The whole ...

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 ...

Impossible as it is to believe, Christopher Hitchens, the enfant terrible of Anglo-American politics and letters, would have turned 75 today, almost 13 years since his premature death from esophageal ...

The death of author Christopher Hitchens from cancer at 62 brought forth a flood of flattering remembrances about his wit and style, but largely missing was the other side of Hitchens, the ruthless ...

Forecasts of societal demise, if for no reason other than their consistency throughout history, always run the risk of making critics appear hysterical and melodramatic. Even so, one can’t help but ...

A journalist friend of mine emailed me at 1 am Friday morning to tell me that Christopher Hitchens had died. The news brought with it a deep sadness and I instantly recited the Jewish prayer upon ...

On the higher slopes of Mount Olympus, blurbs are a way by which the gods speak to one another in code, with the whole world watching. By Christopher Buckley The world seems primed for religious ...