Christopher Hitchens’ Final Vanity Fair Essay
Today Vanity Fair published Christopher Hitchens‘ final essay for the magazine, an inspiring tribute to Charles Dickens.
The journalist and author passed away last month after a battle with cancer. If Hitchens’ tribute to a great author in...
The pick of paperbacks in 2011
From quirky skits to heart-breaking memoir, it's been a great yearOne of the most pleasant surprises of the year has been the way people seem to be abandoning their distrust of foreign fiction in translation. When I raved about Diego Marani's New Finni...
The pick of paperbacks in 2011
From quirky skits to heart-breaking memoir, it's been a great yearOne of the most pleasant surprises of the year has been the way people seem to be abandoning their distrust of foreign fiction in translation. When I raved about Diego Marani's New Finni...
Letters: Reflections of the death of Christopher Hitchens
Two major international figures have just died. One, Vic Finkelstein, made a difference in the lives of untold thousands through the pioneering role he played in the disabled people's movement. The other, Chris Hitchens, cannot be seen to have made any...
Christopher Hitchens: my friend, a man who never lost his taste for intimacy and good conversation | Henry Porter
You cannot read his writings about the pain he endured from radiation without shedding a tear and gulping hardJournalists are notoriously sentimental about the loss of one of their own: gusts of hyperbole appear about the recently departed only to be f...
Christopher Hitchens: one man’s service in the war against delusion
Last October, Christopher Hitchens received the Atheist Alliance of America's Richard Dawkins award. This is an edited version of his acceptance speechWell, I'm overwhelmed ladies and gentlemen, and I did promise Richard [Dawkins, who presented his epo...
Consummate writer, brilliant friend
Ian McEwan writes of his close friend's last weeks, and how his love of journalism and literature sustained him to the endThe place where Christopher Hitchens spent his last few weeks was hardly bookish, but he made it his own. Close to downtown Housto...
Unthinkable: Christopher Hitchens at heaven’s gate | Editorial
'Do you know who I am? Of course you do, it's one of the drawbacks of omniscience'Saint Peter: Next!Man [defiant]: Christopher Hitchens.St Peter [a half-beat late]: Personal account?Hitchens: Do you know who I am? Of course you do, it's one of the draw...
Martin Rowson on Christopher Hitchens – cartoon
Celebrated journalist, writer and unshakeable secularist has died from complications of oesophageal cancerMartin Rowson
Christopher Hitchens: a contrarian for whom radicalism was a style
Frances Stonor Saunders says alcohol, hard living and linguistic lust all combined to make Hitchens a compelling presencePerhaps more than any other public intellectual of his age, Christopher Hitchens consciously invoked the quality of what he called ...
Christopher Hitchens dies aged 62
Celebrated journalist, writer and unshakeable secularist has died from complications of oesophageal cancerA contrarian in life, the writer Christopher Hitchens united the world in death, with friends, colleagues and even debating opponents joining to c...
Christopher Hitchens: He died too young, with too much left to say | Nick Cohen