Polemicist and journalist Christopher Hitchens, who died in December at 62 after a battle with esophageal cancer, was celebrated Friday as an incorrigible contrarian, dazzling public intellectual, ...

The death of Christopher Hitchens last night, from complications from esophageal cancer at age 62, ended one of the great intellectual careers of the last 40 years. A prolific author and debater, ...

What does it feel like to be tortured? Most people would never want to find out, but to be fair, Christopher Hitchens isn’t like most people. To authenticate his Vanity Fair article about ...

When someone dies who is a public figure by virtue of their political acts -- like Ronald Reagan -- discussions of them upon death will be inherently politicized. How they are remembered is not ...

The controversial journalist was a harsh critic of religion and Bill Clinton. Dec. 16, 2011— -- Christopher Hitchens, the maverick essayist, unabashed atheist and cable television gladiator whose ...

WASHINGTON - Christopher Hitchens, the author, essayist and polemicist who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right and wrote the provocative best-seller “God is ...

WASHINGTON - Christopher Hitchens, the author, essayist and polemicist who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right and wrote the provocative best-seller "God is ...

Christopher Hitchens had a tongue so sharp, you’d bleed out before you knew you were wounded. The famous atheist, who regarded faith as “the surrender of the mind,” mastered the cutting witticism, ...

Christopher Hitchens, the engaging and enraging British-American author and essayist whose polemical writings on religion, politics, war and other provocations established him as one of his generation ...

When a consummately articulate, boundlessly bold journalist stricken with stage 4 esophageal cancer reports from the front lines about facing what he calls, among other things, "hello darkness my old ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Christopher Hitchens, the author, essayist and polemicist who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right and wrote the provocative best-seller ...