In an afterword, Hitchens' widow, Carol Blue, describes re-reading him, and "when I do, I hear him, and he has the last word. Time after time, Christopher has the last word." ...

For better or worse, Hitchens and Diamond had the time to reflect on their fate. My father, on the other hand, learned the seriousness of his condition only two days before his death.

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This bracing anthology of Christopher Hitchens’s work for The London Review of Books is just the ticket. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we ...

The funeral was a full-dress Catholic epic—about two hours long, with spine-tingling performances of both Mozart’s and Fauré’s requiems. But the spirit of reconciliation had clearly not suffused ...

Better known among the general public is his 1936 poem “Funeral Blues” – also known as “Stop All the Clocks” – which Auden repurposed as a cabaret song for vocalist Hedli Anderson.

Future generations are very unlikely to credit Christopher Hitchens with saving the Left. Nor is he likely to be remembered as a great essayist like his long-time hero George Orwell, or even H.L ...

Above, Princess Diana walks through a minefield in Angola on January 5, 1997. Christopher Hitchens jokes about this visit during the final months of his life. Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images ...

Born in 1949, Christopher Hitchens was a journalist, author and well known polemicist. For his first ever book, Stephen Phillps signed a deal to release a book about Hitchen in 2022. However ...

Last summer, W.W. Norton bought Phillips’s book, tentatively titled “Pamphleteer: The Life and Times of Christopher Hitchens,” and planned to release it in 2022.