Wonderful, wonderful reminiscence of Christopher Hitchens by his friend Christopher Buckley. You must read it all. Excerpt: Lunch—dinner, drinks, any occasion—with Christopher always was. One of our ...

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See our full tribute to the life of Christopher Hitchens. Read Slate’s complete archives of Christopher Hitchens’ columns. I asked Christopher not long ago if he had felt, at the time that he made his ...

It was Christopher’s idea to start a drinking club. We would call it the Osric Dining Society, he said, in honor of Osric, the unctuous courtier in Hamlet. He helpfully quoted several lines to ...

With the possible exception of Tom Wolfe and Maureen Dowd’s, Christopher Hitchens’ marvelous byline is the most archly kinetic in current-day American letters. Every article, review and essay has the ...

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, ...

This bracing anthology of Christopher Hitchens’s work for The London Review of Books is just the ticket. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an ...