My books
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Surrender Doubleday, 2009; Anchor paperback, 2010
"Bawer is unquestionably correct, and that fact is quite simply terrifying." - Stephen Pollard, New York Times Book Review
"Sublimely literate and rational...an immensely important and urgent book." - Booklist (boxed, starred review)
"An alarming, depressing, brilliant and remarkably courageous book." - Martin Sieff, Washington Times
"Bruce Bawer has yet again written an excellent book....I truly hope that it will serve as an eye-opener for everyone." - Geert Wilders
Written with an urgency and clarity that makes it hard to stop reading and re-reading it. It should be studied by all who wish to understand the forces at work in the West that make an Islamic House of Peace a brewing nightmare. - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
"With courage and verve, Bruce Bawer builds the case for how 'the West is on the road to sharia'....Bawer rousingly and rightly argues that the Wests unwavering principle must be 'a refusal to sacrifice or compromise liberty - no matter what.'" - Daniel Pipes, Director, Middle East Forum
"Liberals
should be in the forefront of the defense of free expression
against the deeply disturbing threats Bruce Bawer documents."
- Ron Rosenbaum, author
of Explaining Hitler and The Shakespeare Wars
"...the most controversial gay author in modern history." - Lynne Cohen, Jewish Tribune
While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying
the West from Within
Doubleday, 2006; Broadway Books paperback, 2007
A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
(CLICK HERE TO READ REVIEWS)
(CLICK HERE TO READ A SUMMARY OR EXCERPT AT RANDOMHOUSE.COM)
"A book of the utmost
importance, full of deep concern for Europe and almost unbelievable revelations
for most Americans.
- Booklist
Europeans
would do well to heed Mr. Bawer's advice and open their eyes. - Abraham H.
Foxman, National Director, Anti-Defamation League
I have read
no argument or book more viscerally convincing on this subject.
- Roger L. Simon,
rogerlsimon.com
A clarion call
for the West to understand the radical threat to
our freedoms from politicized fundamentalist Islam.
- Andrew Sullivan
Must-read book.timely
and incisive...Bawer describes a landscape of dysfunction. -
Carlin Romano, Philadelphia
Inquirer
Indispensable. - J. Peder Zane, Raleigh News and Observer
Bawer
makes his case moderately but eloquently and powerfully. Will Europeans heed his
warning? - Daniel Pipes
A stunner
of a book. -Andre Zantonavitch, The American Thinker
Some
books are merely important. This one is necessary. - Jonathan Rauch
The
sweeping and dramatic shift going on in Europe is chronicled to stunning
effect....as enlightening as it is disturbing....if you want to understand the
car burnings, the killings over cartoons and films, and other outrages sure to
come, you won't do any better than While Europe Slept.
- Scott C. Yates, Rocky Mountain News
In
a sane world, it would be required reading in all European and American
universities. - Robert Spencer
Riveting, disturbing,
fascinating, chilling, and shocking....required reading for anyone who wants to
understand how militant Islam has insinuated itself into the heart of the West.
- Steven Emerson
A
sensitive and sober portrait of an increasingly insensitive and reckless
continent. - Victor Davis Hanson
Bldende
og intelligent indignation, fuld af skammelige og skarpe observationer. - Klaus
Wivel, Weekendavisen (Denmark)
Deeply
thoughtful, persuasive and beautifully written." - Douglas Murray,
Social Affairs Unit Web Review
Mientras
Europa duerme
Gota a Gota, 2007
Traduccin de Isabel Gonzlez-Gallarza
(SOBRE
LA EDICIN ESPAOLA)
"Un libro valiente, complejo y claro a la vez,
y adems ameno como pocos. Se lee de un tirn, sin exageracin de ninguna clase.
No dejen de precipitarse a comprarlo, ahora mismo, en la librera ms prxima.
De lectura obligatoria." - Jos Mara Marco, Libertad Digital
Terwijl Europa Sliep
Meulenhoff, 2006
Vertaald door Thijs Bartels
(OVER DE NEDERLANDSE EDITIE)
...uitstekend
geschreven...een boek dat iedereen in Europa zou moeten lezen.
-
De Leestafel
Sov
sdt, Europa
Trykkefrihedsselskabet , 2008
Oversat af Jens Christian Bech
Pedersen
Forord af Henryk Broder
"Bruce Bawers bog er pligtlsning for enhver, der vil orientere sig om, hvad der
sker med Europa i dag. Og det er uhyggeligt. Det er mske den vigtigste bog
skrevet i mange r. Og som iagttager udefra kan Bawer lettere se og
diagnosticere, hvad der foregr." - Henrik Gade Jensen, Jyllands-Posten
Stealing
Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity
Crown, 1997; Three Rivers paperback,
1998
(CLICK HERE TO READ A SUMMARY AT RANDOMHOUSE.COM)
"Bawer's graceful prose and lucid insights make this a must-read book for anyone
concerned with the relationship of Christianity to contemporary American
culture." -
Publishers Weekly
"Groundbreaking." - Library
Journal.
"Bawer lauds liberal Christianity as the essence of the Gospel, the kind of
religion that Jesus would both recognize and practice because he preached it.
This is a passionate, articulate, timely, and utterly useful book." - Peter J.
Gomes, Wilson Quarterly
"An adventure in American religious thought, exciting and intelligent." -
Booklist.
"Stealing Jesus
may prove of value simply for its clear exposition of what today's American
'fundamentalists' believe and want to do. Bawer's readers will no longer be able
to greet that term with a condescending smile. The Church of Law, as he
convincingly demonstrates, does not debate, and it takes no prisoners."
- Walter Kendrick,
New York Times Book Review.
Link to Kendrick's review.
A
Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society
Simon & Schuster, 1993;
paperback 1994
"Courageous and thought- provoking."
- Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, New York Times Book Review.
"If there is one book about homosexuality and gay rights that everyone should
read, it is probably this one." - John Fink,
Chicago Tribune
"Powerful and important...the blockbuster of the
season." - Steve Petrow, The Advocate.
"Challenging and compulsively readable...tightly reasoned and responsible."
- Bob Summer, Lambda Book Report.
"Courageous." - Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World.
"A quiet, dispassionate voice trying to be heard above the din." - John Heidenry,
New York Daily News.
"Brings cool reasoning to the heated battlefield of gay
rights....Rigorous, eloquent and full of good sense...a timely arrival in a
debate that needs more reason and less rancor." - Steve Murray,
Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
"One of the most sensible assessments of the gay rights movement that's ever
been written, as well as one of the most eloquent arguments for acceptance of
gays that's ever been made." - Frank Bruni, Detroit
Free Press
"Of all the sinkholes in American politics, the debate over homosexuality is the
rankest....With the bracingly rational passion of a writer who can think and
feel at the same time, [Bawer] charts a path out of the swamp." - Jonathan
Rauch, Wall Street Journal.
"Eloquent...This could be the crossover book many have
been waiting for -- plain and sane talk about a complex issue...[that] should be
the starting point for all future debate." - Kirkus Reviews.
Prophets and Professors
Story
Line Press, 1995
"A rare pleasure: a richly detailed, erudite,
and non-academic (huzza!) critique...that is positively thrilling in its
unabashed love of poetry and commitment to the project of restoring some
semblance of order to its chaos....." -Booknews
"Bawer is one of the appallingly few American literary journalists whose work
repays the reading; he is an intelligent, independent, tough- minded critic and
a clear-eyed observer of literary affairs." - Jonathan Yardley, Washington
Post
"Immensely readable...Provocative and entertaining, filled with intelligence and fight." - Andrea Barnet, New York Times Book Review
Link to Barnet's review
Includes essays on
Emily Dickinson, H.D., W.C. Williams, Wallace Stevens, Conrad Aiken, I.A.
Richards, Louise Bogan, Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, Dylan
Thomas, the Beats, Allen Ginsberg (discussed
here), Sylvia Plath, Richard Wilbur, Donald
Justice, Helen Vendler, Dave Smith, Vikram Seth, formal poetry, literary
interviews, PBS's Voices and Visions, plus short reviews.
Coast
to Coast: Poems
Story Line Press, 1993
Named the year's best first book of poetry by the Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook. Excerpts here.
Beyond
Queer: Challenging Gay Left Orthodoxy
(editor)
Free Press, 1996
"Marks the end of radical
dominance in gay politics and culture, the beginning of a pragmatic and
democratic approach to gay issues." - Ray Olson,
Booklist.
Includes essays by Bawer,
John W. Berresford, David Boaz, Stephen H. Chapman, Mel Dahl, David Link,
Carolyn Lochhead, Daniel Mendelsohn, Stephen H.Miller, Jonathan Rauch, Andrew
Sullivan, Paul Varnell, Norah Vincent, John Weir.
(Essays from Beyond Queer, plus other work by the same writers, can be
found at the
Independent Gay Forum
website.)
Innocence Aralia Press, 1988
No longer
available:
House
and Home (with Steve Gunderson and
Rob Morris) Dutton, 1996
The Aspect of
Eternity Graywolf Press, 1993
"...a literary essayist of the highest
order." -
Kirkus Reviews.
The
Screenplay's the Thing
Shoe String Press, 1992
Diminishing
Fictions
Graywolf Press, 1988
The Contemporary Stylist
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
987
The Middle Generation: The Lives and Poetry
of Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, and Robert Lowell
Shoe String Press, 1987
"A critic of the first order, one of the best we have today." - Robert Phillips,
Commonweal.