Bruce Bawer

At CNN, the biggest annual tradition is its several-hours-long New Year’s Eve celebration. It used to star prime-time news anchor…

Critic, schmitic. How can you pretend to be engaged in objective aesthetic appraisal when you’re talking about movies that you…

Didion & Babitz By Lili Anolik (Scribner, 352 pages, $30) When I saw that a new book was out entitled…

I first encountered Nikki Giovanni, who died on Monday at the age of 81, in the pages of the 1973…

The prescription painkiller OxyContin was released by Purdue Pharma in 1995; the six-part TV series Painkiller, created by Micah Fitzerman-Blue…

When I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, almost everybody was familiar with the prime-time schedules of the…

The recent death of Sandra M. Gilbert at the age of 87 sent my mind reeling back decades to the…

Weep, Shudder, Die: On Opera and Poetry By Dana Gioia (Paul Dry Books, 198 pages, $20) “People’s reaction to opera…

It started last month with the decision of Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of the Los Angeles Times, not to endorse a…

Today’s movie stars are, by and large, a sorry lot. If they haven’t been to Jeffrey Epstein’s island or P….