Bruce Bawer

Five hours, baby. Of course, by Netflix standards, it’s the flicker of an eyelid, the flap of a hummingbird’s wing,…

When my mother first met him, she threw her arms around his neck and kissed him on the mouth. So…

“Tolstoy used to write in the town square. The faces inspired him.” Elaine’s boss said it on Seinfeld, so it…

It’s not easy being a drama critic for the New York Times because you have so much heavy ideological baggage…

Hilary Mantel, the English writer who died on September 22 at the age of 71, was famous for her highly…

This is I, / Hamlet the Dane. — Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1  Unless you count the giant, icy island…

“It’s the smell, Jeff. I keep getting complaints.”  – Landlord of convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer In the first episode…

“Sweden Is Becoming Unbearable,” read the headline on Sept. 18. Well, yes, Sweden is becoming unbearable: thanks to the mass…

Many years ago, I lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for over a decade, and during that period…

The news came on Tuesday. French-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard, who with François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, and Éric…