Today in publishing and literature: Christopher Hitchens final memoir will be published simultaneously in the U.K. and U.S., a modest proposal to help authors make more money, and the "Jefferson Bible ...

Christopher Hitchens, a sharp-witted writer, critic and pundit, died Thursday at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston of pneumonia related to esophageal cancer. He was 62. Hitchens was an ...

Vanity Fair, where much of Hitchens’ work appeared, announced his passing late Thursday night on Twitter. He was 62 and suffering from esophageal cancer. Hitchens, born in Britain but more recently ...

Thomas Jefferson was born on this date in 1743. Christopher Hitchens was born on this date in 1949. That two great polemicists of the Anglophone tradition share a birthday is a cosmic compliment.

Christopher Hitchens returns from "the holidays" refreshed and ready to air his grievances with what, in his opinion, may have been the most controversial thing he read in The New York Times before ...

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You’d think that, once the Almighty found himself on the business end of God Is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens’ latest broadside, there’d be hell to pay. Instead, Hitchens’ book became an ...

Thomas Paine was one of the greatest advocates of freedom in history, and his Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund ...

Two days ago, the great public intellectual Christopher Hitchens passed away from pneumonia, after battling esophageal cancer for close to eighteen months. Many glowing obituaries have since been ...

In his latest column for Slate, the ailing essayist Christopher Hitchens returns to a favorite target of his, Henry Kissinger, whom was recently found on newly released tapes from his days in the ...

In the summer of 2010 the popular author and atheist Christopher Hitchens was diagnosed with cancer. With his usual candor and clarity, Hitchens movingly described his battle with the illness in an ...