Bruce Bawer

My parents were very different people from very different backgrounds, but they bonded over at least two things: movies and…

During the past few decades, so-called “identity studies” programs — such as women’s studies and black studies — have proliferated…

Acting Naturally: The Magic in Great Performances By David Thomson (Knopf, 288 pages, $30) Eighty-two years old this month, David…

The other day, after watching the 2015 Swedish movie A Man Called Ove for the first time — an experience…

Back in the heyday of Martin Luther King, Jr., the stated goal of the civil rights movement was to strengthen…

In an episode of the late, great sitcom The King of Queens, Doug Heffernan (Kevin James) and his wife, Carrie…

It started last Oct. 6, when an adjunct instructor at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, showed the students in…

Many comedians root their humor in the images they’ve chosen to project. The premise of Jack Benny’s comedy was that…

I’m always astonished when I come across the name of an American university that I’ve never heard of in my…

The history of Hollywood is studded with failed attempts to adapt European films. Take Édouard Molinaro’s charming 1978 French-Italian comedy…