Christopher Hitchens, the author and essayist who died on Thursday, was known for his assertive atheism. From scathing books about Mother Teresa... For Hitchens, In Life And Death, An Unaware Cosmos ...

A well-known writer's death usually brings a host of written tributes -- certainly true in the case of Christopher Hitchens, who died yesterday. Hitchens, often called "controversial" (one of his ...

I think what now ought to be faced is that Hitchens is, as others (Christopher Buckley, for one) have said, the greatest living essayist in the English language. Twenty-three years ago -- when ...