Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Right-wing culture warriors love “Hitch,” but the late contrarian writer passionately defended free speech and abhorred institutional racism. John ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maybe because it was too soon to forecast posterity's verdict, consensus was not reached. Instead, as the parties debated Hitchens ...

For all his reputed brilliance, Christopher Hitchens, the inexhaustible essayist, author and public contrarian who passed away Thursday, suffered some pretty brutal treatment from reviewers of his ...

“I miss Christopher Hitchens,” the Americana songwriter Conor Oberst sung on his heart-excising 2016 album Ruminations. “I miss Oliver Sacks. I miss poor Robin Williams. I miss Sylvia Plath. Every ...

I remember when Christopher Hitchens first said that if you gave Jerry Falwell an enema you could bury him in a matchbox. The combination of pugnacity, imagery and wit in that single phrase was what ...

’Tis the season to recall Christopher Hitchens. One decade ago this month, the Anglo-American journalist died of esophageal cancer at age 62. Commemorations and tributes have marked the sad occasion.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...