Bruce Bawer

2 weeks ago | newenglishreview.org | Bruce Bawer |Michael Gross

By Bruce BawerStronger: The Untold Story of Muscle in Our LivesBy Michael Joseph Gross(Dutton, 480 pages, $35)I was never an athlete. Or at least I never thought of myself as one. If you were a boy in Queens when I was growing up, only one thing mattered: how good you were at softball. I stunk. I couldn’t hit, couldn’t throw, and couldn’t catch. I was the stereotypical unathletic gay kid, picked last when we chose teams, and grew up seeing myself as a hopeless loser in sports.

2 months ago | lucianne.com | Bruce Bawer

Original ArticlePosted By: Christopher L, 1/30/2025 12:35:21 PMTo me it was obvious from the start that claims about Donald Trump's ties to Russia, although pushed intensely and for a very long time by the leftist media, were nothing but a gigantic hoax.

2 months ago | spectator.org | Bruce Bawer

Until the other day, I was unfamiliar with the work of Rob Tregenza, a Kansas-born, UCLA-educated filmmaker who has written, directed, and photographed five pictures. Reviewing the first, Talking to Strangers (1988), which was shot in Baltimore, Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote that it “consists of only nine shots, each a ten-minute take.

2 months ago | frontpagemag.com | Bruce Bawer

[Want even more content from FPM? Sign up for FPM+ to unlock exclusive series, virtual town-halls with our authors, and more—now for just $3.99/month. Click here to sign up.]To me it was obvious from the start that claims about Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, although pushed intensely and for a very long time by the leftist media, were nothing but a gigantic hoax. Similarly, I knew that the Wuhan lab leak theory made a lot more sense than the wet-market fable.

Jan 23, 2025 | frontpagemag.com | Bruce Bawer

[Want even more content from FPM? Sign up for FPM+ to unlock exclusive series, virtual town-halls with our authors, and more—now for just $3.99/month. Click here to sign up.]Today fewer than one percent of Americans belong to the Episcopal Church, the U.S. branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion.