28 Facts About Bruce Bawer

Theodore Bruce Bawer was born on October 31,1956 and is an American-Norwegian writer.

Bruce Bawer is a literary, film, and cultural critic and a novelist and poet, who has written about gay rights, Christianity, and Islam.

Bruce Bawer has been described as a conservative by some.

Bruce Bawer has argued that such labels are misleading or reductionist.

Bruce Bawer is of Polish descent through his father and is of English, Welsh, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, and French descent through his mother, whom he profiled in the September 2017 issue of Commentary.

Bruce Bawer contributed to the arts journal The New Criterion between October 1983 and May 1993.

Bruce Bawer published a collection of essays on poetry, Prophets and Professors, in 1995.

Bruce Bawer is on the side of the formalists and those for whom poetry is not a game of literary gossip.

Bruce Bawer's poetry appeared in the 1996 anthology Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism, and he contributed to an essay to the movement's manifesto, Poetry after Modernism.

Bruce Bawer's poems have appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, and The New Criterion.

From 1987 to 1990, Bruce Bawer served as the film critic for the conservative monthly The American Spectator.

Bruce Bawer wrote several articles on film for The New York Times and other publications.

Bruce Bawer has since returned to the magazine as a freelance book reviewer.

Bruce Bawer described it in its first pages as "a reflection on the theme of homosexuality", motivated by the fact that current debates had "generated a lot more heat than light".

Gay-rights opponent Maggie Gallagher, while calling the book "fascinating", criticized Bruce Bawer for being dissatisfied with "mere tolerance".

Bruce Bawer explicitly called for same-sex marriage in a March 1996 New York Times op-ed.

Bruce Bawer commented frequently on the treatment of gays in the films and TV.

Bruce Bawer moved from the US to Europe in 1998, in part, as he later explained, because his long-term exposure to Christian fundamentalism via Stealing Jesus had drawn him to the purportedly more liberal life in Western Europe.

Bruce Bawer has written scores of articles about the rise of Islam on the continent, the earliest being "Tolerating Intolerance", which appeared in 2002 in Partisan Review.

Once established in Western European nations, Bruce Bawer maintains, Muslims avoid integration and answer only to sharia law, while avoiding the legal systems of their host nations, allowing abuse of women and gays, as well as Jews and other non-Muslims.

Eliot Weinberger, one of the board members of the Circle, stated when he presented the list of nominations that Bruce Bawer's book was an example of "racism as criticism".

Bruce Bawer discussed the book in a half-hour interview on Bill Moyers Journal.

Bruce Bawer has talked about Islam on such programs as The Michael Coren Show in Canada and at various conferences in the US, Canada, and Europe.

Identity studies, according to Bruce Bawer, reduce the human experience to ideologically charged jargon about power relationships among groups.

Bruce Bawer has written for FrontPage Magazine websites, for City Journal, for the Gatestone Institute website, and on his blog.

In 2017, Bruce Bawer published The Alhambra: A Novel of Islam in Europe.

In 2019 Bruce Bawer published a short book called A Marriage Made at the Copa, about his parents, and two collections of essays entitled Islam and So Far.

Since living in Europe, Bruce Bawer has translated all or part of several books from Norwegian to English, including the following:.