Regarding "Christopher Hitchens: Religious skeptic and acerbic ... He then started asking me about my background. He said, "You're Iranian, correct?" When I responded that I was, he said, "I ...

Not long thereafter, I visited him in California. Christopher took me on a long, leisurely stroll through his Palo Alto neighborhood. Waving to neighbors, stopping to visit his father-in-law Edwin ...

But the background to this began soon after I got to The Nation. I had first met Christopher Hitchens through his elegant New Statesman pieces on the Middle East, but also, it seemed, everywhere else.

Essayist Christopher Hitchens has led a colorful life, from the tragic death of his mother, his days at Oxford and an infamous encounter with Margaret Thatcher. Host Scott Simon talks to Hitchens ...

This, too, is exhilarating but hits diminishing returns when I realize how soon it, too, will be background. Christopher Hitchens in a passage from "Mortality." You can read more from the book in ...

Hitchens' background was what Orwell described as ... he loved. Long afterwards Christopher and his younger brother Peter (later to become a noted conservative columnist in London) discovered ...

Mortality, the final book by Christopher Hitchens, the Anglo-American essayist, reporter, devout atheist and all-around intellectual troublemaker, won't be shelved in the travel section.

In May of 2012, a panel was convened to debate whether the work of Christopher Hitchens would stand the test of time. The irrepressible author and public contrarian had died, of esophageal cancer ...