Bruce Bawer

Exactly 25 years ago, this native New Yorker finally escaped his hometown’s gravitational pull and flew off to a new…

All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia By Simon Garfield (William Morrow, 400 pages, $30)…

On March 5, in a piece about the Screen Actors Guild Awards, I offered, en passant, an exquisitely nuanced critical…

Posted on YouTube eight months ago and entitled “We Are CNN,” the video crams a lot into four minutes. A…

For Americans of a certain age — that is to say, Americans who were born and grew up during what…

If you’re like me, you’ve always been somewhat dissatisfied with the annual Academy Awards telecast — and, for that matter,…

When I moved to Norway from the U.S. in 1999, one of the new pieces of information that most surprised…

Although I’ve occasionally run across Scott Adams’ long-running comic strip, Dilbert, and have found it amusing, I’m not an office…

It started back in the 1980s with the construction of Aker Brygge, a tourist-trappy wharf on the Oslo Fjord packed…

Their number may not be legion yet, but it will be, and soon. They’re the people, most of them extremely…