In fact, as Christopher donated his body to medical science, there has not been and will not be any funeral. He took this decision partly because of his religious (or rather non-religious) opinions, ...

Sheila Hitchens, nee Stritzel, age 50, of Hanover Park, beloved wife of Stephen; loving sister of Susan (Tom) Sorenson and Thomas (Pat) Stritzel; dearest daughter-in-law of Annamae Hitchens; cheris… ...

With the possible exception of Tom Wolfe and Maureen Dowd’s, Christopher Hitchens’ marvelous byline is the most archly kinetic in current-day American letters. Every article, review and essay ...

Even Christopher Hitchens’s detractors would concede him two great qualities: ... “The funeral, like the man himself, was largely a celebration of misanthropy, vanity, ...

“To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off,” wrote the late Christopher Hitchens in his June 2011 column, “Unspoken Truths,” for Vanity Fair.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS — bombastic journalist, author and left-wing lightning rod — died Thursday after a battle with cancer. He was 62. Hitchens’ death at the MD Anderson Cancer Ce… ...

Sheila Hitchens, nee Stritzel ... Sharon, Patrick, Richard, Collette,Elizabeth, Joseph, Christopher and ... and Thomas; many friends and relatives. Funeral prayers Saturday 9:30 a ...

Christopher Hitchens has made no secret of his disdain for religion. The central argument of his 2007 book God Is Not Great was: "Religion poisons everything.". Nevertheless, in the May issue of ...

Christopher Hitchens, who has died aged 62, ... Hitchens, a mistake he used as a peg to muse on the subject of mortality (it was not so much the mourners at the funeral that came to mind, ...

On Wednesday, the essayist Christopher Hitchens announced that he has cancer of the esophagus and will soon begin chemotherapy. There are others who know him better than I who can reflect on his il… ...

Hitchens, as an English boarding-school kid, learned that words “can function as weapons.” At the core of “Hitch-22” are Hitchens’s British anxieties about class and decline of empire.