Christopher Hitchens was an Atlantic contributing editor and a Vanity Fair columnist. For nearly a dozen years, Christopher Hitchens contributed an essay on books each month to The Atlantic.

At the 2008 Edinburgh International Festival, Oxford professor and Christian apologist John Lennox and leading atheist and acclaimed journalist Christopher Hitchens first debated over the question ...

Hitchens is envisioned as an establishment that celebrates the joy of connection, the thrill of intellectual discovery, and the art of indulgence.

Toynbee, Barbara Tuchmann, Christopher Hitchens, and many others, all drawn from the magazine's archives. Experience history as Atlantic writers and readers experienced it at the time, watching ...

From a September 2023 entry in Air Mail. My dad, Tom Wolfe, delighted in defending his style of writing and had no qualms about throwing barbs at other writers. In… ...