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: the best of his writing online
From the Atlantic to Vanity Fair and – of course – the Guardian, the journalism of Christopher HitchensThe loss of Christopher Hitchens leaves the world a far poorer place, but perhaps Salman Rushdie's tribute to him – "A great voice falls sile...
Christopher Hitchens at his most polemic – in video
A roundup of video highlights from Hitchens's most defiant and fiery debates, covering atheism to whiskeyChristopher Hitchens, one of the more provocative, thought-provoking, and entertaining public intellectuals of his generation is dead at 62 after a...
Christopher Hitchens Has Died
The great essayist and journalist Christopher Hitchens has passed away. The 62-year-old author wrote a number of books, including God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, and Hitc...
Christopher Hitchens: tributes and reactions
The indefatigable author, journalist and 'valiant fighter against all tyrants' Christopher Hitchens has died, aged 62. We round up the reactions of his friends and admirersTributes, memories and paeans of praise for the late Christopher Hitchens poure...
Christopher Hitchens: He died too young, with too much left to say | Nick Cohen