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 ...

WITHOUT THE HITCH: Vanity Fair held a spirited memorial service for Christopher Hitchens on Friday afternoon, in the Great Hall of Cooper Union. Graydon Carter welcomed attendees — who included ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. In 2009, Marilyn Sewell, the retired minister of the First Unitarian Church of Portland Oregon, interviewed Christopher ...

A 1989 fatwa, or religious edict, by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini, ordered the killing of novelist Salman Rushdie for his allegedly blasphemous novel “The Satanic Verses.” In 1998, Iran ended support of ...

not inhale and that he thinks the best of today’s youth are signing up for the military. They are not, he told Stewart, signing up for his journalism class at NYC’s New The article you just read is ...

"It is with tremendous sadness that Vanity Fair announces the death of our contributing editor and dear friend Christopher Hitchens. Christopher died today from pneumonia, a complication of esophageal ...

When I think of Hitch, I'm reminded of Emma Goldman, the early 20th-century Russian-American anarchist, who once said, "If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution." Christopher Hitchins, the ...

The following is Carol Blue’s afterword to her husband Christopher Hitchens’ book Mortality, out in September from Twelve. Onstage, my husband was an impossible act to follow. If you ever saw him at ...

To read Christopher Hitchens, the brilliant, pugilistic essayist and journalist who died Dec. 15 at 62, was to be deeply impressed–envious, if you were a writer–and at some point to be deeply pissed ...

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