Regarding Laura Lloyd's article on Christopher Hitchens (NCR, Aug. 3): Ms. Lloyd apparently cannot comprehend why so many Americans are buying and reading Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Although the book is a national bestseller, nowhere in her...

Renowned author and activist Tariq Ali appeared at Georgetown University April 17 to debate the equally renowned and active Christopher Hitchens as part of a book tour sponsored by Verso, publishers of Ali's new volume, The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads, and Modernity (available...

There are some lessons that can’t be transmitted down the generations (or else this column would not be a regular feature) and the most conspicuous of these is the choice of your life partner. There’s no damn heritability. In fact, this is a case where...

Just when you thought Wed­nesday was getting boring, here comes our favorite hard-drinking, Clinton-debunking, body-waxing British atheist, Christopher Hitchens, to take on Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, father of eight, at the 92nd Street Y. The rabbi told us that Mr. Hitchens is “the high priest of...

In the following interview, Hitchens discusses his education, formative experiences, his socialist perspective, contemporary political issues, his position on abortion, and his encounters with various notable people.

In the following review of Prepared for the Worst, Keach commends Hitchens's coverage of the Middle East and Central America, but notes flaws in his analysis of other writers and his own “radical” socialist stance.

In the following review of Prepared for the Worst and Blood, Class, and Nostalgia, Johnson praises Hitchens's provocative writing, but criticizes his preference for acerbic personal attacks on “soft targets” and his resort to irony as a principal mode of critique.