Bruce Bawer
Stronger: The Untold Story of Muscle in Our Lives By Michael Joseph Gross (Dutton, 480 pages, $35) I was never…
The Dream Factory: that’s what they used to call Hollywood. As the long-forgotten silent-movie star Norma Desmond sings in the…
On March 31, Norway’s biggest TV channel, state-owned NRK1, broadcast a special half-hour program, beginning at 9:15 PM — prime…
Has anyone ever pointed out the parallel between Howard Stern and Graydon Carter? Because when I read the latter’s just-published…
It started, as ever, with the red carpet. Since I live in Norway, I watched it on TV2 Denmark. Asked…
In 1981-82, my third year as a graduate student in English at Stony Brook University on Long Island, I shared…
Until the other day, I was unfamiliar with the work of Rob Tregenza, a Kansas-born, UCLA-educated filmmaker who has written,…
How bizarre it was to watch Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, being abused at his confirmation…
