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Christopher Hitchens, perhaps the greatest essayist of our age, lost his battle with esophageal cancer at age 62. The Daily Beast looks back on his life. What I'll Miss About HitchensBy Lee Siegel The ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 The dazzling public intellectual gets a rousing and appropriately irreverent memorial service, Lloyd Grove reports. The Washington Post via Getty Images ...

Journalist and essayist Christopher Hitchens has died from complications of cancer of the esophagus. He was 62. The writer has been closely identified with leftist ideas but has traveled across the ...

The first time I saw Christopher Hitchens in action was at a dinner at the British Embassy in Washington, an up-market fund-raiser for our old Oxford college, Balliol. I had been at Balliol a decade ...

Christopher Hitchens is a man of many colorful opinions—a Trotskyite turned FOX News pundit, pro–Iraq War and anti–Mother Teresa. Now, after producing numerous books and countless articles, he's ...

’Tis the season to recall Christopher Hitchens. One decade ago this month, the Anglo-American journalist died of esophageal cancer at age 62. Commemorations and tributes have marked the sad occasion.

When someone dies who is a public figure by virtue of their political acts -- like Ronald Reagan -- discussions of them upon death will be inherently politicized. How they are remembered is not ...

Update (October 25, 2016, 5:15 P.M.): The Dennis & Victoria Ross Foundation on Thursday named Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron winner of the 2016 Hitchens Prize. In honoring Baron, the ...