Bruce Bawer
For the set designer anyway, it’s the simplest of dramatic situations: for about an hour and a half, a dozen…
Before the internet, artificial intelligence, the International Space Station, and the mapping of the human genome, there was science fiction,…
It’s a phenomenon as old as human culture itself. Il Paradiso represented a falling-off from Il Purgatorio. Paradise Regained wasn’t…
Ten minutes after downloading Richard Bradford’s Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer, I was wondering what the hell I’d…
Well, now I know what it’s like being the full-time psychiatrist of a hyper-narcissistic celebrity. No, I haven’t gone to…
July 25, 1985, was a red-letter day in the history of the AIDS epidemic. A publicist for the movie star…
Confession: I’m a bookaholic. And I’ve been one all my life. Once, as a toddler, I was taken to visit…
In 1954, Warner Brothers released Dial M for Murder, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted by Frederick Knott from his…
There once was a British Labour Party politician named Glenda Jackson. She represented a London district in the House of…
