A native New Yorker who has lived in Norway since 1999, Bruce Bawer has written several influential books on a range of issues. A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society (1993) was named by columnist Dale Carpenter as the most important non-fiction book about homosexuality published in the 1990s; Publishers Weekly called Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity (1997) "a must-read book for anyone concerned with the relationship of Christianity to contemporary American culture"; While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within (2006) was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; and Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom (2009) was hailed by Booklist as "immensely important and urgent." He has also published several collections of literary and film criticism, including Diminishing Fictions and The Aspect of Eternity, and a collection of poetry, Coast to Coast, which was selected by the Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook as the best first book of poems published in 1993. He is a frequent contributor to such publications as The Hudson Review, City Journal, The American Scholar, Wilson Quarterly, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, and has reviewed books regularly for the New York Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World, and Wall Street Journal.
"Bawer scores lots of entertaining points against the insufferable posturing and unreadable prose that pervades identity studies....Bawer's is a lively, cantankerous takedown of a juicy target." -- Publishers Weekly"Bawer is passionate in his criticism of the current state of academia and its effects on broader American culture." -- Booklist"The developments described by Mr. Bawer will not surprise readers familiar with the campus wars that broke out in the 1980s, when entire departments devoted to these fields began to be established. Where the author's text shines is in explaining their root causes." -- Wall Street Journal"The book is terrific, exposing the academic criminality that those programs encourage -- i.e., teaching na�ve and impressionable students things that either are utterly false or are merely wild-eyed opinions as truth....I strongly recommend the book." -- National Review"This is a vital, sparkling, and truth-telling book." -- Jay Nordlinger, National Review"This book is an adventure in American religious thought, exciting and intelligent." -- Booklist
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