I find myself strangely moved by Christopher Hitchens’ confrontation with advanced—perhaps terminal—cancer. I say “strangely” because I know the man only through his prodigious body of work, which ...

It is strangely humbling to read the last writings of a dying atheist whose opinions seemed of near-stratospheric condescension, and who stood among a group of modern anticlerics who consider ...

What difference does it make if Francis Collins is a Christian and Christopher Hitchens is an atheist? Hitchens has cancer and Collins is working on individualized cancer treatments based on genetics.

As for the people praying for his survival and begging against his death, Hitchens concedes just this much to the AP: “I think it’s a nice gesture.” ”I’m perfectly sure that there is nothing to be ...

He’s erudite, charming, witty and the possessor of a massive ego. I find him fascinating to listen to, though in order to do so, one must abide his insufferable arrogance. Yet, I listen — and choose ...

Stricken with cancer and fragile from chemotherapy, author and outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens sits in an armchair before an audience and waits for the only question that can come first at such ...

The popular author Christopher Hitchens writes in Vanity Fair about his journey with cancer. Probably like you, I have too many friends who have it. Some have recently died from it. Oddly, as Hitchens ...

In the summer of 2010 the popular author and atheist Christopher Hitchens was diagnosed with cancer. With his usual candor and clarity, Hitchens movingly described his battle with the illness in an ...

Christopher Hitchens may be the greatest living English-writing writer, at least in the short form. I envy his raw prose power and find him compelling, even when I disagree vigorously with, or am cut ...

I once called Christopher Hitchens “the greatest living essayist in the English language,” said Christopher Buckley in NewYorker.com, and “I would alter only one word in that blurb now.” Hitchens, who ...

British writer Christopher Hitchens announced plans to undergo chemotherapy to fight off cancer. Hitchens said: “I have been advised by my physician that I must undergo a course of chemotherapy on my ...