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 ...

The late Christopher Hitchens was not only a great writer, he had a great appreciation for alcohol. And he got a lot of mileage from an incident that occurred in Aspen back in 1990. Here’s his account ...

Christopher Hitchens was an Atlantic contributing editor and a Vanity Fair columnist. For nearly a dozen years, Christopher Hitchens contributed an essay on books each month to The Atlantic. He was ...

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 ...

Leaning back from the table, ever-present Rothman smoldering away, Christopher Hitchens turned from globalpolitik to what was really on his mind: why the nickname “Spanker” goes so well with most ...

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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 2009, Marilyn Sewell, the retired minister of the First Unitarian Church of Portland Oregon, interviewed Christopher Hitchens, one of the most famous atheists of the time. Unitarians do not believe ...

NPR's Guy Raz doesn't often agree with British intellectual Christopher Hitchens. But he also has never read anything by Hitchens that doesn't... Perhaps it is to British writer and intellectual ...

From time to time, I like to ask whether so-and-so is an alcoholic. It tends to complicate the definition of addiction if so-and-so was -- or continues to be -- a substantial drinker but is quite ...