Around the Web: Remembering Christopher Hitchens

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Christopher Hitchens — a critic, author, journalist and habitual slayer of sacred cows — died Thursday at the age of 62 from cancer. Hitchens’ polarizing presence in public debate has spurred a cascade of tributes around the web.

We selected some of the profiles, tributes to and pieces written by the prolific and controversial writer:

• The New York Times: Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely, With Wit

• Hitchens’ friend Christopher Buckley remembers him in the New Yorker: Postscript: Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011

• The Guardian: Christopher Hitchens at his most polemic – in video

• Esquire’s Charles Pierce remembers Hitchens

• NPR profiled Hitchens as he was dying of cancer: NPR: Christopher Hitchens On Suffering, Beliefs And Dying

• A Washington Post profile from June 2010: An easy label for Christopher Hitchens? Careful, it could be a fighting word

• In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011

• Vanity Fair, for which Hitchens’ wrote a variety of essays, remembers his series on cancer etiquette for the magazine. Read those essays here: Christopher Hitchens Wins National Magazine Award for Columns About Cancer

• Hitchens also wrote for Slate magazine — his editor wrote that editing his writing was the easiest job in journalism: Hitchens ‘Greatest Hits’ from Slate

• Hitchens brought his strong convictions to Art Beat in 2009 for a debate on the Parthenon Marbles, an issue he cared deeply about. He was the author of the book, “The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Restitution.”