Bruce Bawer

American Refugees: The Untold Story of the Mass Exodus from Blue States to Red States By Roger L. Simon (Encounter…

Tár was released on Oct. 7, 2022, and for a while afterwards, I did everything I could, short of getting…

For decades during the postwar era, Leonard Bernstein occupied a unique place at the red-hot center of both America’s high…

Last month, reporting here on the first part of the sixth and last season of The Crown, I was, if…

Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever By Matt Singer (G.P. Putman’s Sons, 352 pages, $30) In the…

I’ve never entirely understood why, when the subject is death-dealing psychopathic dictators like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, Napoleon almost always…

Another year, another installment of The Crown. The series, which started in 2016, has been a cash cow for Netflix….

Until I stumbled across a live online feed a few minutes after it started, I wasn’t aware that a “March…

My Name Is Barbra By Barbra Steisand (Viking, 992 pages, $47) Nowadays, the name of Barbra Streisand is likely to…

Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World By Richard Cockett (Yale University Press, 464 pages, $35) A…