Polemicist and journalist Christopher Hitchens, who died in December at 62 after a battle with esophageal cancer, was celebrated Friday as an incorrigible contrarian, dazzling public intellectual, ...

Christopher Hitchens, perhaps the greatest essayist of our age, lost his battle with esophageal cancer at age 62. The Daily Beast looks back on his life. What I'll Miss About HitchensBy Lee Siegel The ...

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 ...

The first time I saw Christopher Hitchens in action was at a dinner at the British Embassy in Washington, an up-market fund-raiser for our old Oxford college, Balliol. I had been at Balliol a decade ...

Christopher Hitchens is a man of many colorful opinions—a Trotskyite turned FOX News pundit, pro–Iraq War and anti–Mother Teresa. Now, after producing numerous books and countless articles, he's ...

I met Christopher Hitchens only one time, and that was at a perfectly dismal event called the Democratic National Midterm Convention in Philadelphia in 1982. (It was at this event that I first noticed ...

When someone dies who is a public figure by virtue of their political acts -- like Ronald Reagan -- discussions of them upon death will be inherently politicized. How they are remembered is not ...

Christopher Hitchens now knows the truth of it. Christopher Hitchens the smart, acerbic, funny, mean, insightful, and thick commenter on all things has passed away at the age of 62. Hitchens may have ...

Journalist and essayist Christopher Hitchens has died from complications of cancer of the esophagus. He was 62. The writer has been closely identified with leftist ideas but has traveled across the ...