While it's tempting to see Charles Dickens as a fusion of his heroes and villains, on the great British novelist's 200th birthday his true gifts shoul...

On June 4, 2010, Christopher Hitchens appeared on LIVE from the NYPL. This was three days before he became terribly ill. When asked "why write a memoir now?," he answered by saying, "You've got to do it in time."

I have no doubt that Christopher Hitchens will have an afterlife. As one of the most original and provocative writers of his generation, his words will continue to mesmerize, incite, confound, and entertain.

Christopher Hitchens' last memoir will be released early next year, according to the publisher Atlantic Books. The legendary writer died on Thursd...

The New York Times redrew the printing of its front page, after news broke that legendary writer Christopher Hitchens had died Thursday night. The...

Note from the Editor: Journalist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens died on Dec. 15 of pneumonia, a complication of esophageal cancer. He was 62. The...

Christopher Hitchens was a journalist, an author, an atheist, a smoker, a drinker, a provocateur, a husband and a father. His death on Dec. 15 at the ...

Vanity Fair's announcement that journalist and renowned atheist Christopher Hitchens, 62, had died on Dec. 15 of pneumonia, a complication of esophage...

Christopher Hitchens died Thursday in Houston. He was 62. The legendary writer was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2010. His death was announce...