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 ...

Vanity Fair, where much of Hitchens’ work appeared, announced his passing late Thursday night on Twitter. He was 62 and suffering from esophageal cancer. Hitchens, born in Britain but more recently ...

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 ...

One of America's most controversial public intellectuals died last night in a Houston hospital of pneumonia brought on by esophageal cancer. He was 62 years old. Christopher Hitchens was a ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Christopher Hitchens, a slashing polemicist in the tradition of Thomas Paine and George Orwell who trained his sights on targets ...