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Remembering an American contrarian: Christopher Hitchens dead of cancer

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Christopher Hitchens, a man who wasn’t afraid to take on anyone, died on Thursday of esophageal cancer. He was famous for his biting criticism of, well, everyone, from Henry Kissinger, “a war criminal,” to Mother Theresa, “a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud,”

Re-upholstering Sigmund Freud’s Couch and Remembering One Poet Who Made a Dent in it

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The Final Chapter: Five Authors Discuss Writing About Death

Remembering Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011