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Christopher Eric Hitchens is an author, journalist and literary critic. He has been a columnist at *Vanity Fair*, *The Atlantic*, *World Affairs*, *The Nation*, *Slate*, *Free Inquiry*, and a variety ...

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, ...

— -- British-American writer Christopher Hitchens— the combative and caustic critic, intellectual, atheist and self-defined "conservative Marxist" — died Thursday at the age of 62 at a Texas ...

To many of his contemporaries who approach writing as an act of creative exertion rather than just a vehicle for transmitting thoughts, an act of self-realization and of compulsive assertion of ...

Essayist Christopher Hitchens appeared on The Daily Show Tuesday night to discuss his new memoir, Hitch-22. Host Jon Stewart took a brief tour through Hitchens's early days as a Marxist, which ...

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 ...