Bruce Bawer

When, as in my case, your job involves reading a lot of news every day, it can be quite depressing….

I was in second grade when an assassin’s bullet tore apart the brain of the President of the United States….

In 1954, Reginald Rose’s play 12 Angry Men was broadcast on national TV; three years later a feature film version,…

The coming of spring is pretty much the same everywhere, but it is especially glorious in the Netherlands. The winters…

A new book — or, rather, a reprint edition of a not-so-new book — has got me cogitating about the…

Before perusing the long and impressive list of Joseph Epstein’s books that fills two pages of the front matter of…

Recently, in an article about the latest Netflix outing featuring the spectacularly unfunny comedienne Hannah Gadsby, I wrote the following:…

The movie Death Wish, which this year celebrates its 50th anniversary, opens with a brief sequence establishing that New York…

I was born and raised in New York City and lived there until my early forties. I loved the city…

Now that Netflix’s The Crown has finally come to an end, one of the most expensive and elaborate TV series…