(CBS/AP) Christopher Hitchens, a Washington, D.C.-based author, essayist and polemicist, died Thursday night at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston of pneumonia, a complication of his esophageal ...

Hitchens, a columnist for the Nation and Vanity Fair, and author, most recently, of The Trial of Henry Kissinger, has made a career of disagreement and dissent, of being the thorn in search of a side.

The last time I saw Christopher Hitchens was on a sunny summer day on Irving Place. I had just had Christopher Hitchens, as he once was. “Gallagher,” (he always addressed me by my surname) “You’re ...

Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images. Christopher Hitchens -- a critic, author, journalist and habitual slayer of sacred cows -- died Thursday at the age of 62 from cancer. Hitchens' polarizing ...

The British-born journalist, essayist, commentator and agent provocateur Christopher Hitchens turned righteous indignation into an elite art form. And when he died from cancer in 2011, after ...

At the April 20th memorial service for Vanity Fair contributing editor Christopher Hitchens, author and Hitchens intimate Martin Amis delivered the eulogy. and I used to call him, my dear Hitch. The ...

Mortality, the final book by Christopher Hitchens, the Anglo-American essayist, reporter, devout atheist and all-around intellectual troublemaker, won't be shelved in the travel section. But in a ...

In 2015, the Dennis & Victoria Ross Foundation inaugurated the Hitchens Prize, awarded annually to an author or a journalist whose work, in the spirit of the late Christopher Hitchens, “reflects a ...

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 ...

Through his Vanity Fair essays, his books and his television appearances, Christopher Hitchens has become one of our leading provocateurs, saying what many of us might be thinking (though he’s more ...

What emerges is a picture of Hitchens as an intellectually lazy poseur and a huffy racist—a man who, despite the remarkable breadth of his reading, “often lacked depth” and was “either unable or ...

Detain or subpoena the pope for questioning in the child-rape scandal? You must be joking! All right then, try the only alternative formulation: declare the pope to be above and beyond all local and ...