Christopher Hitchens explains Why Orwell Matters, and does so with feeling. One can see that he identifies strongly with his countryman, the socialist daring to stand up against doublethink and ...

Christopher Hitchens, British writer, journalist, intellectual and atheist, was renowned for his feisty political and religious commentary. After a battle with esophageal cancer, which cut his tour of ...

Carol Blue-Hitchens and her late husband’s literary agent are discouraging friends from participating in a book tentatively titled “Pamphleteer: The Life and Times of Christopher Hitchens.” By ...

— "Christopher Hitchens was a complete one-off, an amazing mixture of writer, journalist, polemicist, and unique character.

Most people have a candidate for the worst day of their life. Here’s mine: the day I learned to read. No one tells you that you will be trapped. There will be no provision to learn to unread. People ...