Christopher Hitchens, the author and essayist who died on Thursday, was known for his assertive atheism. From scathing books about Mother Teresa... For Hitchens, In Life And Death, An Unaware Cosmos ...

To read Christopher Hitchens, the brilliant, pugilistic essayist and journalist who died Dec. 15 at 62, was to be deeply impressed–envious, if you were a writer–and at some point to be deeply pissed ...

It's a truth that many of us discover when forced to watch a loved one's long and painful dying: it isn't death that's to be feared, it's dying. Death is our universal fate. Death, as stricken ...