Bruce Bawer is an American author, literary critic, and cultural commentator known for his writings on Islam in Europe, free speech, and Western culture. His books include 'While Europe Slept' and 'The Victims' Revolution.' He contributed essays and reviews to The Weekly Standard between 2013 and 2017.
Gerard Reve’s 1947 debut novel, a Dutch classic that is only now being published in English translation, carries a blurb in which Herman Koch, author of the 2009 bestseller The Dinner, calls it the "funniest, most exhilarating novel about boredom ever written."
Phyllis Chesler has had a curious career. Back in the 1970s, along with Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Kate Millett, and company, she was a leading “second-wave” feminist, whose 1972 book Women and Madness sold 2.5 million copies. Yet, in some respects, she always differed from her activist…
He poses as an investigative journalist and is presented in his main outlets—the Nation, MSNBC, Socialist Worker, Democracy Now!—as a foreign-affairs expert. In fact, Jeremy Scahill—a college dropout who was arrested several times in the 1990s in connection with (among other things) the occupation…