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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You might be surprised to hear that Christopher Hitchens — best-selling author and contributing editor for Vanity Fair — toiled at a work camp for young revolutionaries in 1968 Cuba. Last week, on The ...

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 ...

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 ...

. I secured an early copy of the book. Hitchens’s writing is still sparkling and insightful, even though he died in 2011. ” had not yet descended onto the West. And the years Hitchens spent as a ...

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 ...