Christopher Hitchens, the author and essayist who died on Thursday, was known for his assertive atheism. From scathing books about Mother Teresa... For Hitchens, In Life And Death, An Unaware Cosmos ...

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 ...

I think what now ought to be faced is that Hitchens is, as others (Christopher Buckley, for one) have said, the greatest living essayist in the English language. Twenty-three years ago -- when ...

To read Christopher Hitchens, the brilliant, pugilistic essayist and journalist who died Dec. 15 at 62, was to be deeply impressed–envious, if you were a writer–and at some point to be deeply pissed ...