Hitchens writes for Slate and The Daily Mirror and is a contributing editor to The Atlantic Monthly and to Vanity Fair.

He contributes to such publications as Critical Quarterly, Foreign Policy, Free Inquiry, The Globe and Mail, Granta, Grand Street, The London Review of Books, Harper's, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, New Left Review, Newsweek International, The New York Observer, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Weekly Standard.