I once called Christopher Hitchens “the greatest living essayist in the English language,” said Christopher Buckley in NewYorker.com, and “I would alter only one word in that blurb now.” Hitchens, who ...

I spent one night having drinks with the late Christopher Hitchens, and it was a night I'll never forget. Yes, I know I’m late to the party when it comes to Christopher Hitchens tributes and ...

In May of 2012, a panel was convened to debate whether the work of Christopher Hitchens would stand the test of time. The irrepressible author and public contrarian had died, of esophageal cancer, ...

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 Hitch in Time: Writings from the London Review of Books, by Christopher Hitchens. Atlantic Books. 340 pages. £12.99. His head was hairless, except for a wispy pair of eyebrows, and there was a ...

In 2015, a nonprofit called the Dennis and Victoria Ross Foundation created an annual prize to honor the legacy of the late Christopher Hitchens. As described by the foundation’s website, the Hitchens ...

In an interview with Brian Lamb of C-SPAN, Christopher Hitchens said that his chief motivation for writing is rage—rage against political corruption, media distortion of reality, and the culture of ...

The death of Christopher Hitchens has made the world immeasurably less interesting. One of my regular readers shot me an email Friday morning: "Your thoughts about Hitchens? Was he a great writer?" ...

“I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously,” Christopher Hitchens wrote. Of course, he meant this less than literally. It was advice he used ...

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 ...

There is no denying Christopher Hitchens’s skill as a public figure: he is seldom at a loss for words, sometimes entertaining, and occasionally even right. But he keeps getting important things wrong ...

The Republicans’ final debate preceding the Iowa caucuses was suddenly uncompelling. There was nothing to do but write about Christopher Hitchens, whose death had made the world immeasurably less ...