Bruce Falconer

Bruce Falconer is the Scholar’s executive editor.

A review of a thrilling life

In memory of Jan Morris

Escaping the city, a writer finds contentment in a small town

The cathartic power of drumming

The pandemic as seen from my front porch

My unlikely friendship with the dean of Washington lawyers

Books we admire from 2013

In a remote part of Chile, an evil German evangelist built a utopia whose members helped the Pinochet regime perform its foulest deeds

Gentrification in Berlin shutters a bombed-out building where artists had squatted since the Wall came down

The river before Mark Twain