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 ...

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 ...

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.

Christopher Hitchens, a sharp-witted writer, critic and pundit, died Thursday at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston of pneumonia related to esophageal cancer. He was 62. Hitchens was an ...

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 ...

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 ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. In the summer of 2010 the popular author and atheist Christopher Hitchens was diagnosed with cancer. With his usual candor ...

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 ...

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 ...