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 ...

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 ...

Christopher Hitchens, longtime contributor to The Nation, wrote a wide-ranging, biweekly column for the magazine from 1982 to 2002. With trademark savage wit, Hitchens flattens hypocrisy inside the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You’d think that, once the Almighty found himself on the business end of God Is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens’ latest broadside, there’d be hell to pay. Instead, Hitchens’ book became an ...

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 ...